Anselm BühlingNov 16, 2022
Brendan Nyhan

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My article for the @[email protected] today warns that Trump's "Big Lie" about election fraud is going global and how this may be the "new normal", after his allies started exporting it to Brazil and other countries. 👇 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/opinion/brazil-elections-bolsonaro.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/VianaNatalia/status/1592284277190033408

Opinion | The Big Lie Is Going Global. We Saw It in Brazil.

Steve Bannon and others in the Stop the Steal campaign encouraged Jair Bolsonaro to disrespect the electoral process in Brazil after he lost the presidency.

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“Bolsonaro can’t concede,” Steve Bannon told the right-wing site Rumble right after the election in Brazil. “This election was stolen in broad daylight ... outrageous,” Mr. Bannon wrote on his Gettr account. His claims were baseless. The Organization of American States, the Carter Center and other international observers commended the conduct of the elections in Brazil and singled out the Superior Electoral Court, the body overseeing the electoral process, for praise.
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Meantime, per FP while #MAGA were busy encouraging a coup in #Brazil, the Biden administration sternly warned #Bolsonaro against this option.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/10/28/brazil-elections-bolsonaro-democracy-biden/

Brazil Elections: How Team Biden Pressured Bolsonaro to Accept Election Results

Sunday’s election in Brazil will be a test for more than Jair Bolsonaro’s integrity.

Foreign Policy
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,,For Team Biden, the playbook from a man sometimes called the “Trump of the Tropics” looks all too familiar. Bolsonaro’s efforts to lay the groundwork for an election challenge mirrors Trump’s efforts to cast doubt on the 2020 U.S. presidential election results, a campaign that culminated in a deadly pro-Trump mob attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with an eye to violently overturn the election results.,,

Biden's threats likely helped to undermine the coup.

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Meddlesome, for sure. But this might be one of the few times ever the US attempted to prevent a coup in #LatinAmerica.