Hundreds of local races also in contention in Brazil’s election Sunday

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All eyes are on Brazil this weekend. The presidential vote is between Trump-ally, far-right president Jair Bolsonaro and former left president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Lula is well ahead in the polls. But Brazilians will also elect 500 members of Congress, more than a thousand state lawmakers, two dozen senators and 27 state governors. More Indigenous people, women and Black candidates are running for office than ever before. But, as Michael Fox reports from Southern Brazil, there has been pushback.

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