Vance’s whirlwind visit may not help Orbán to the election victory he craves
As the US vice-president wades into a heated campaign, Hungary’s leader faces the real possibility of defeat
Even before the plane carrying JD and Usha Vance had landed in Budapest, the Hungarian government had hailed their two-day visit as a new golden age in the relationship between Washington and Budapest.
What came next was a whirlwind of politics in which the US vice-president waded directly into the country’s https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/04/young-people-hungary-general-election-polls-viktor-orban">heated election campaign, just days before Hungarians cast their ballots.
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