Brazil reelected Lula. In the United States, the Democrats won the House and the Senate. In nine days, two majorities handed defeats to Bolsonarism and Trumpism. Mexico has already shown the strength of a left-wing majority. Spain votes in November, and Milei heads into 2027 with his main ally weakened.
Trump lost Congress, and the allies who wore his cap around the world are in trouble too: Netanyahu is left without a majority in Israel's parliament, Flávio Bolsonaro fled to the United States, and Milei's Argentina has closed more than 32,000 companies.
The three Senate candidates Trump hand-picked in key states lost. His party gave up the Senate, the House and four governorships. In exit polls, six in ten voters said Trump weighed on their vote, and only 38% approved of the president.
NBC projects a Democratic majority in both chambers. In the Senate, there were seven flips, from Texas to Maine, where Susan Collins lost; the tally goes to 54 to 44. In the House, the estimate is 258 Democratic seats to 177. In the states, Democrats took the governorships of Georgia, Ohio, Iowa and Nevada.
At the opening of the Supreme Court's public hearing, the rapporteur of the cases against the ban said gambling addiction is a public health problem. His vote still depends on ten other justices, and the trial has been stalled since August by a request for review from Flávio Dino.
The PT will back his re-election, because the rival is Rogério Marinho, of the PL, a party whose banner is the impeachment of Alexandre de Moraes. To pull votes from the right, Alcolumbre is discussing a pardon for Bolsonaro. The government did not sign on: Lula has already spoken publicly against pardoning Bolsonaro.
A week after entering the United States with White House approval, the senator has become the target of the #DeportTheBolsonaros hashtag, of wanted posters in New York and of a letter from 25 Democratic House members to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. On Monday (November 2), the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee asked Rubio to send him back "to face justice."
On Tuesday, November 3, the Supreme Federal Court hears from those who want to overturn the betting ban. Justice Luiz Fux's first list had ten clubs, the CBF, the betting houses' associations and the TV broadcasters' association. Psychiatrists, consumer advocates and child-protection groups, heard in 2024, were not invited. Outside the court, the Bets Nunca Mais petition already tops 140,000 names.
Israeli Menachem Halevy entered Brazil six days before the runoff and crossed the border at Foz do Iguaçu seven minutes ahead of the senator's van, Fantástico showed. On the other side, a US$150,000 jet was waiting to fly to Miami. The Federal Police is investigating an operation planned under the name Alba.
Reelected with 64.2 million votes against an opponent backed by Trump and by the family that tried a coup, Lula was hailed by Brussels, Paris and Madrid as a victory for democracy. From Mexico's president to Mélenchon's supporters in France, the world made the L.
