Miguel Simões Leal adopted his alias because of a physical likeness but he’s not the only candidate with a familiar moniker

“I’d vote Biden,” Trump said as he pondered Tuesday’s era-shaping election.

Not the real Donald Trump, of course, but his South American namesake – a 49-year-old politician from Brazil’s Amazon who is running for office using the name of a US president he reviles.

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