The son of Brazil’s former hard-right president Jair Bolsonaro outperformed the polls in a national election this weekend.
Leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva now faces an uphill battle to keep the presidency ahead of a runoff vote on Oct. 25.
Host Scott Tong gets the latest from NPR South America correspondent Carrie Kahn.
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