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spanone

(141,697 posts) Tue Apr 7, 2026, 08:55 AM Yesterday

Meanwhile, J.D. Vance is in Hungary campaigning for Victor Orban

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Hungary on Tuesday in a bid to turn the tide of an election campaign where long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a close ally of President Donald Trump, is trailing in the polls.

Vance’s two-day trip, where he is scheduled to hold an official visit with Orbán and later appear at one of his campaign rallies, offered the clearest sign yet that the Trump administration is going all-in for an Orbán victory when Hungarians go to the polls on Sunday.

Orbán is running for his fifth-straight term as prime minister. He and his nationalist-populist Fidesz party are facing their toughest race in two decades against a center-right challenger, the Tisza party led by Péter Magyar, that could bring an end to Orbán’s 16 years in power.

Long accused by critics of taking over Hungary’s institutions, clamping down on press freedom and overseeing entrenched political corruption — charges he denies — Orbán has become an icon in the global far-right movement.

https://apnews.com/article/jd-vance-hungary-orban-election-campaign-08e0929e9c8b3ae4302ae4e8c0393d5e

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Meanwhile, J.D. Vance is in Hungary campaigning for Victor Orban (Original Post) spanone Yesterday OP

He's less unpopular in Hungary? C_U_L8R Yesterday #1

Maybe he's less annoying if you don't speak the same language EdmondDantes_ Yesterday #7

So they send Neck Beard over there to win everyone over? Diamond_Dog Yesterday #2

Putin probably demanded it... spanone Yesterday #6

Here's hoping that backfires harumph Yesterday #3

Of course he is orangecrush Yesterday #4

Orban may be down in the polls, but I doubt he is worried DFW Yesterday #5

What on earth makes them think that Sunlight Yesterday #8

C_U_L8R

(49,415 posts)

1. He's less unpopular in Hungary?

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Tue Apr 7, 2026, 08:56 AM

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The bar must be pretty low.

EdmondDantes_

(1,832 posts)

7. Maybe he's less annoying if you don't speak the same language

Reply to C_U_L8R (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 7, 2026, 09:34 AM

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Diamond_Dog

(40,671 posts)

2. So they send Neck Beard over there to win everyone over?

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Tue Apr 7, 2026, 09:10 AM

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What do they think that will accomplish?

Whatever happened to America First? Every day we are inserting our worst politicians into other countries’
business whether they want us there or not.

spanone

(141,697 posts)

6. Putin probably demanded it...

Reply to Diamond_Dog (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 7, 2026, 09:27 AM

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harumph

(3,293 posts)

3. Here's hoping that backfires

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Tue Apr 7, 2026, 09:14 AM

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orangecrush

(30,500 posts)

4. Of course he is

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Tue Apr 7, 2026, 09:16 AM

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It was the blueprint for Trump.

DFW

(60,242 posts)

5. Orban may be down in the polls, but I doubt he is worried

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Tue Apr 7, 2026, 09:17 AM

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Hungary is surely now using the Stalin-Bush-Trump method of tallying the votes.

„They who cast the votes decide nothing. They who count the votes decide everything.” — attributed to Josef Stalin

“it’s over. We won. It’s all over but the counting, and we’ll take care of the counting.”—Republican Peter King alongside GW Bush at the White House on election day, 2004, when both pre-election polls and exit polls in the deciding state of Ohio said John Kerry had won.

Sunlight

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8. What on earth makes them think that

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Tue Apr 7, 2026, 10:36 AM

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Hungarians would be swayed by the vp of an American madman when they go to the polls??

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