Steve Bannon compares Brazilian election results to Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud in 2020

Bannon: Lula da Silva's performance in the election was a “stark warning to MAGA and to all the Republicans of the games that are being played in these elections”

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Steve Bannon described the elections as a “stark warning to MAGA and to all the Republicans of the games that are being played in these elections” and compared the results to Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud in 2020.

From the October 3, 2022, edition of War Room: Pandemic

STEVE BANNON (HOST): The lead story overnight, we’re going to start with Matthew Tyrmand and we have Darren Beattie on deck, this is the Bolsonaro election down in Brazil absolutely central and a very stark warning to MAGA and to all the Republicans of the games that are being played in all these elections.

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We are not going to allow this election to be stolen because we are going to give a death blow at the ballot box to the Democratic Party as a national political institution, from school boards all the way up to the House and the Senate and the governors races. 

Let me bring in Tyrmand. Tyrmand, walk me through exactly what happened, Bolsonaro was down, I don’t know, 15 points basically, they said Lula, the transnational criminal puppet of the Chinese Communist Party, he was in the -- he was going to get over 50% of the vote, Bolsonaro’s at 36, the first results that came out last night blew people away. Bolsonaro up. But as the night went on, brother, and the machines start reporting it didn’t end up that way. 

Although it’s quite interesting on down ballot the Bolsonaro right-wing absolutely swept. Walk me through, Matthew what happened and what warning is this to the United States and MAGA?

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MATTHEW TYRMAND: To see every single dump until the wee hours when it was totalled up go one way, people are absolutely crying fraud in Brazil because it’s the same thing we saw in 2020. Smartmatic machines, born in Venezuela out of the Chavez regime, exported all over the world, worked on the US elections, they’re everywhere. Fully digital, no paper ballots, non-auditable -- now in Brazil the military does have a constitutional right to oversee an investigation of fraud.

After a commercial break, right-wing conspiracy theorist Darren Beattie said “you see a lot of the same dynamics” in Brazil as in the United States “from election shenanigans all the way to big tech censorship.”

From the October 3, 2022, edition of War Room: Pandemic

DARREN BEATTIE (GUEST): I would like to also add that the stakes are incredibly high in this election. I think that maybe some listeners, perhaps not your listeners who are more educated and informed than most, but I could imagine a lot of Americans who are involved in domestic politics might not have fully understand the ramifications and the global stakes involved in the outcome of this Brazilian election. It is really, it could be a turning point for global politics depending on who ends up winning.

You couldn't be a more stark competition between a representative of exactly the kind of nationalism that all of us want and support and the most destructive and corrosive version of really, socialism is almost to weak of a term, what it really is is communism when you look at what Lula represents, the networks that he belongs to and the history of those networks.

And so it really is a crucial election and you see a lot of the same dynamics that go on here from election shenanigans all the way to big tech censorship. That's something that's sort of under reported in the American press but Brazil has to deal with the same degree of severe tech censorship that we have in the United States and in some cases it's even worse.