Jair Bolsonaro is poised to lose the Brazilian election
He will not go quietly
The polls are clear. Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s rainforest-ravaging president, is likely to lose an election in October. His leftist rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is 13 points ahead. But many of Mr Bolsonaro’s supporters do not believe the polls.
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