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Lula beats Bolsonaro to win Brazil presidential election

Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected to a fourth, nonconsecutive term in the nation's presidential election , according to early results released Sunday evening. Why it matters: Lula's victory deals a setback to Brazil's right-wing populist movement and preserves a major counterwei

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What the coverage shows

Most outlets converge on Lula’s win in a fourth, nonconsecutive term and on Bolsonaro’s refusal to concede or seek annulment. Several, including Axios, AP, BBC, CBS, NBC and NPR, frame it as a comeback or upset, while CNBC and The Hill stand out for emphasizing that Lula beat prediction-market expectations. A few outlets add their own angle: BBC, Al Jazeera and the New York Times foreground social media and WhatsApp, while France 24 focuses on the Amazon and deforestation.

Written by Crossfiled from the 28 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.

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