Lula’s alleged runoff win on Sunday was statistically unprecedented, and the rule change that helped produce it wasn’t even allowed. Flávio Bolsonaro led the first round 47.03% to 45.16%. Lula then flipped it to 51.79%–48.21% in the runoff—the first time since Brazil’s return to direct presidential elections in 1989 that the second-place finisher from round one has ever won the runoff. In the prior seven runoffs, the first-round leader always finished the job. Brazil’s own electoral court president, Kassio Nunes Marques, said Sunday there was no rule authorizing the two-hour extension Lula used to fraudulently win and that “never, in the history of the TSE, has there been any extension.” The TSE is Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court, the body that runs national elections. What happened in Brazil was blatant election interference. The same pattern of systems that allow fraud shows up in America. In Brazil, Lula used an obedient judge to change the election rules on Sunday so he could win. In the U.S., some Democrat-led states refuse to require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. It’s a different fraud than what we just saw in Brazil, but it’s the same idea. The left will win by any fraudulent means necessary and then attack you if you call out their fraud. In the U.S., California is the clearest example of constantly holding fraudulent elections and then calling you the problem when you call them out for it. When you don’t check that someone is a citizen before they get a ballot, as is the case in California, you are not running a legitimate election. That’s why the left fights every voter ID and citizenship verification law. It’s why they push for extended hours, drop boxes, and mail rules that make verification harder, then go silent when anyone asks questions after the fact. It’s why federal elections in U.S. states that don’t require ID to register to vote need to be shut down legally until they do. It’s also why the election in Brazil needs to be annulled because Lula changed the rules after voting had ended in many locations and votes were already being counted. It’s fraud that’s easy to see and call out. The only issue is those who benefit from the fraud just pretend it didn’t happen or try to jail you for exposing it. That’s the real tyranny. Lula is not a legitimate winner and should be legally stopped from taking power. All elections where the left runs them are illegitimate if they don’t require basic proof to register to vote and change the rules so that they are guaranteed to win. Trump beat Kamala in 2024 even with the Democrat playbook in place where illegal aliens could register to vote in California by lying about their residency. Trump won by so much that he overcame that California fraud and the fraud in many other Democrat-led states. But that shouldn’t be the standard way conservatives have to win, by overcoming the fraud. There’s currently no check in place to stop the millions of illegal aliens in California from voting. Saying it’s already illegal and yet not having a system in place to stop it is pointless. And Democrats are already running this scam again for the midterms. Illegal aliens are still able to vote in California elections because nothing has been done to stop them from registering to vote other than asking them to check a box and be honest. Think of how insane that is, asking people illegally in the U.S. to be honest. Any conservative politician who treats liberal politicians as normal negotiating partners is making a mistake. The left has shown in France, Italy, the United States, and now Brazil that it uses fraud, institutional capture, and selective enforcement of rules to hold power. That’s the method. The goal is permanent control. The left will never play fair, they do not want clean elections, and they will not stop until someone stops them. Sunday in Brazil was the latest example. It’s time for conservatives to legally act. Reject the fraud.

Flávio Bolsonaro said on Sunday he’s challenging the election result and it’s the right move. After the runoff he said it’s “impossible to accept the results of the elections in the context of how things happened” and that his team will “use the legal channel and request the annulment of these elections.” He called what occurred “unacceptable,” pointing to a Supreme Court minister changing the rules in the middle of the game, bypassing the electoral court, and extending voting by two hours. He said the decision produced a “total break in isonomy.” Isonomy means equal treatment and equal conditions under the rules for everyone. That’s the correct response. Changing the rules while voting is underway isn’t a minor procedural note. It’s the kind of intervention that undermines confidence in the outcome, and Flávio is right to take it to court. If the situation were reversed and a conservative justice had ordered a nationwide extension of voting hours in the middle of the day to benefit the right, the mainstream media would already be calling it a coup attempt. They would be demanding investigations, resignations, and international scrutiny before the final count was even finished. When Lula’s side does it, the same outlets treat it as ordinary administration. That double standard is the real story, and so is the need for the election in Brazil to be annulled.