The US should send Flávio Bolsonaro back to Brazil

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva faces Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in a closely contested election. A Datafolha survey of 2,506 people, conducted 29 September–1 October across Brazil, put a hypothetical run-off at 48% to 45%; Reuters described the result as a statistical tie within the poll's two-point margin of error. The first round on 4 October produced a run-off between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro.

Flávio Bolsonaro left Brazil after missing the deadline to surrender his passports. Reports of his departure on 27 October were unconfirmed and Argentine officials first denied the reports, but Argentina's migration agency later confirmed that he crossed by land that night with his wife and two daughters. They flew by private jet via Ecuador and landed at Opa-locka airport near Miami on 28 October. The US State Department said it would issue visas to the family, and Lula called the departure shameful.