Lula leads Bolsonaro as Brazil's election heats up

[brooklynite]

Axios

Brazil's election campaign officially kicked off this week, with polls showing former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva leading incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in their titanic clash of ideologies and personalities.

Driving the news: A new Datafolha poll out Thursday evening shows Lula up 47% to 32%. Four other recent polls showed him leading by between 7 and 12 points.

The big picture: Gustavo Ribeiro, editor of the Brazilian Report, tells Axios this is "both the most boring and most tense" election he has ever covered.
* Boring, because Lula has held a consistent lead ahead of the Oct. 2 vote.
* Tense, because of the intense dislike between the candidates and their supporters, and because Bolsonaro has repeatedly claimed the election will be rigged and he's threatened to reject the results.

"It would really surprise me if he doesn't try to pull some stunt like Jan. 6," possibly before the election, Ribeiro says.

[panader0]

1. Bolsonaro is Brazil's Trump.

He has said, as per your OP, "that the election will be rigged".
Lula has been a unionist, and vows to stop corruption. Gotta go with Lula.
Bolsonaro is depending on the Christian right to help him. seems familiar.