{"id":43897,"date":"2026-04-07T14:45:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=43897"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:45:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:45:03","slug":"jd-vance-lands-in-hungary-to-back-orbans-re-election-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=43897","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance Lands in Hungary to Back Orb\u00e1n&#8217;s re-Election Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n, a key European ally of the Trump administration, faces a tough set of parliamentary elections this weekend but he now has one supporter firmly on his side after\u00a0U.S. Vice-President JD Vance landed in Budapest on Tuesday to offer his support.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cyv16lq2rp1o\">reports<\/a> Vance is expected to join a press conference before addressing an election rally with Orb\u00e1n in a football stadium on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The 12 April election is billed as Orb\u00e1n\u2019s toughest challenge in a political career going back almost 40 years and he sees the Western world\u2019s aspirations being embodied by his own campaign for a return to office, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2026\/03\/22\/orban-at-cpac-says-fight-for-future-of-western-world-starts-with-hungarian-election-next-month\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2035667522905677911\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/2035667522905677911\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He has claimed four elections in a row since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC report notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Vance and his wife Usha were welcomed by Foreign Minister P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 who told Hungarian media that Orb\u00e1n\u2019s friendship with President Donald Trump had created a \u201cnew golden age\u201d in relations.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Trump said Orb\u00e1n had his \u201ccomplete and total support\u201d in a video message to the Hungarian Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Sunday Orb\u00e1n faces P\u00e9ter Magyar, a former insider in the prime minister\u2019s Fidesz party, who broke with him two years ago to found the centre-right Tisza party.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<p>Tisza leads Fidesz by between 10 percent and 20 percent in most polls. Only the strongly pro-government N\u00e9z\u0151pont agency puts Fidesz narrowly ahead, the BBC report makes clear.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#1844428001326534905\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1844428001326534905\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Orb\u00e1n, 62, is hoping Vance\u2019s visit will impress undecided Hungarian voters enough to back him once again as a strong and internationally respected leader in turbulent times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to seeing my good friend Viktor, and we\u2019ll talk about any number of things related to the US-Hungary relationship,\u201d Vance told reporters as he left Washington, DC, earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, I\u2019m sure Europe and Ukraine and all the other stuff will figure in pretty prominently.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2026\/04\/07\/jd-vance-lands-in-hungary-to-back-orbans-re-election-push\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n, a key European ally of the Trump administration, faces a tough set of parliamentary elections this weekend but he now has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}