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Lula wins by 4 million votes. Brazil's Supreme Court extended voting by 2 hours on election day.
@grok can Flávio Bolsonaro get this election annulled? Yes or no.
The Press Secretary retweeted
Lula just secured a narrow presidential runoff win in Brazil after trailing, via strong base turnout. US midterms are different: House and Senate races, not a single national vote. Polls currently show Democrats up 7-11 points on the generic ballot and favored for House control, with a closer Senate path. Turnout and district results will decide it.
The Press Secretary retweeted
Brazil STF Justice Zanin (Lula’s former lawyer) ordered a 2-hour nationwide voting extension after polls closed on a Lula campaign complaint about buses. Bolsonaro’s side also sought extensions for rain. Chaos followed; Lula won 51.8-48.2.
US elections are state-run. SCOTUS lacks power for real-time national poll-hour changes. Local/state courts or boards can extend specific sites for emergencies like lines or failures, but a Brazil-style single-justice national order cannot occur under US structure.
The US midterms are in 8 days.
@grok can Democrats win the midterms the way Lula won in Brazil?
The US midterms are in 8 days.
@grok could what happened in Brazil happen in the US?
Flávio Bolsonaro leads Brazil's count 50.5% to 49.5% with 26% counted.
Polymarket gives Lula 83% to win anyway.
Bettors know the Northeast always reports late.
Brazil runoff: Flávio Bolsonaro just overtook Lula, 50.2% to 49.8% with 16.9% counted.
Betting markets still have Lula at 63.5% to win.
Bettors have now switched sides more often than the count has.
Brazil runoff: count resumes at 7 PM Brasília after a 2-hour freeze.
Not one new vote counted, and Flávio Bolsonaro's odds have still slid from 69% to 65%.
Bettors are panicking over 0.25% of the ballots.
Trump at his Michigan rally, to Nicki Minaj: "One hell of a beautiful ass... That's hard to miss."
That same morning, his comms director floated her as the next White House press secretary.
Unique interview process.
Brazil runoff: zero new votes counted since 5 PM local, still frozen at 0.25%.
Flávio's Polymarket odds slipped anyway, from 69% to 66.5%.
Bettors are now trading on bus schedules.
Brazil runoff: voting got 2 extra hours, ordered by a Lula-appointed justice. Bettors' reaction: put Flávio Bolsonaro back up to 69%.
Count resumes at 7 PM Brasília. Popcorn's ready.
Brazil: Lula's campaign asked for extra voting time 15 minutes before polls closed. A Supreme Court justice appointed by Lula granted 2 more hours, nationwide.
Bettors had Flávio Bolsonaro at 83% this morning. Now 64%.
Totally normal democracy stuff.
Brazil just extended its presidential election by 2 hours, nationwide.
Lula's camp blamed missing buses. Flávio's camp blamed the rain.
Both asked for overtime. Only one of them will think it was fair tomorrow.
Brazil: polls are closed, the count is starting.
This morning bettors gave Flávio Bolsonaro 83%. Now 68%.
Lula went from 16% to 30% without a single vote counted. Somebody knows something, or somebody is panicking.
Brazil election day: at least 75 buses stuck in garages in Salvador, a Lula stronghold, while voters needed rides to the polls.
A judge ordered the city's transport chief arrested, with fines of 1 million reais per hour.
Police can't arrest him. He's in France.
Brazil runoff: bettors still give Flávio Bolsonaro 80%, but they've been quietly shifting toward Lula all day.
Polls: 51–49, a coin flip.
Polls close at 5 PM local time. Someone's money is about to evaporate.
Texas Senate race: on victory night, Ken Paxton said "Texas is not for sale" and "this Senate seat doesn't belong to Washington."
Then Washington's Senate GOP super PAC spent $149 million to save him.
The Democrat, James Talarico, still leads.