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Vice President Vance Campaigns for Hungary’s Right-Wing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Budapest

HeadlineApr 08, 2026

Vice President JD Vance traveled to Budapest Tuesday, where he appeared alongside Hungary’s right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán five days before Sunday’s parliamentary elections and openly campaigned for his reelection. Orbán’s Fidesz party is currently trailing the pro-EU opposition Tisza party by double digits in the polls. Orbán has been prime minister of Hungary since 2010, making him the European Union’s longest-serving leader. Here’s Vice President Vance on Tuesday.

Vice President JD Vance: “Will you stand against the bureaucrats in Brussels? Will you stand for sovereignty and democracy? Will you stand for Western civilization? Will you stand for freedom, for truth and for the God of our fathers? Then, my friends, go to the polls in the weekend. Stand with Viktor Orbán.”

Meanwhile, President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. traveled to Bosnia’s Republic of Srpska in a visit widely seen as a gesture of support for Milorad Dodik, the pro-Russian leader who was stripped of his mandate last year after a court banned him from politics. The Biden administration had imposed sanctions on Dodik in 2022 over his separatist policies, which were later lifted by the Trump administration last year. During his visit, Don Jr. called the European Union “a bit of a mess” and predicted a “major fracture” between the bloc’s eastern and western member states.

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