President Trump and MAGA-world influencers are echoing Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro's claims of a rigged election after the Trump-aligned populist fell to the incumbent president in Sunday's election.
The big picture: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's runoff victory has been widely seen as a counterweight to the global right's surge in Latin America. But Bolsonaro, like his father , isn't accepting defeat.
What they're saying: "It looked like another rigged election, frankly," Trump told reporters Monday.
He added, "Elections have to be indisputable, and it looked very bad to me."
The White House referred Axios to Trump's comments when asked to respond.
Friction point: Bolsonaro told reporters it was "impossible to recognize the result of this election in the context of how these things have happened," according to a translation .…