Last month, Trump said Orbán had his “complete and total support” in a video message to the Hungarian Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest.
On Sunday Orbán faces Péter Magyar, a former insider in the prime minister’s Fidesz party, who broke with him two years ago to found the centre-right Tisza party.
Tisza leads Fidesz by between 10% and 20% in most polls. Only the strongly pro-government Nézőpont agency puts Fidesz narrowly ahead.
Hi from Budapest. I’m visiting right now and even saw the couch fucker’s motorcade go by today on Andrassy street. I dunno who he’s fooling with this but most of the Hungarians I talked to around town tonight had very little idea who JD Vance is. They were just aware that “some American official” was here. The people who did know who he was didn’t find him to be relevant in any way. I love the idea that he came all the way here to try to prop up Orbán but people either don’t know or don’t care who he is.