The Battle for Brazil’s Swing Voters: Women
The Bolsonaro family has struggled with women voters, but inflation and other pocketbook issues may give them an opening now.
RIO DE JANEIRO—When Flávio Bolsonaro’s first official campaign ad on Brazilian television aired on Saturday, he appeared alongside his wife, his two daughters and his mother. “Everyone knows my father,” he said, referring to former president Jair Bolsonaro, “but my daughters, my wife and my mother made me the way I am.” “My father was always working,” the 45-year-old candidate continued, “and I spent most of childhood with my mother. Later, I met Fernanda”—his wife. The video then shows Fernanda saying to Flávio: “I changed you a lot, I re-educated you. No wonder...
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