Lula & Bolsonaro Neck & Neck in Brazil Poll

0:00It's April 27th. Global news today starts now, AI-powered and worldwide. I'm Cory with the story. A fresh poll from BTG-Pactual in Nexus has Brazil's President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, Neck and Neck in assimilated. Run off for the presidential race, Lula pulls 46%, Flavio 45%, basically a dead heat. This comes after a March survey where they were deadlocked at 46% of peace. In first round scenarios, Lula leads with 41%, while Flavio grabs between 36 and 38% depending on the field. Brazil's rules kick in a runoff if nobody hits over 50% of valid votes, like in every election since 2002. Lula, at 80 years old, beat Flavio's dead, former president Jair Bolsonaro back in 2022, now eyes a fourth non-consecutive term. Markets have been glued to these numbers ever since Jair, who's imprisoned, endorsed

1:01his 44-year-old son Flavio last December. The poll hit 2028 folks from April 24th to 26th, with a two percentage point margin either way, so things could. Get quick as we watch this unfold.