Trump likes to back winners in foreign elections. The upcoming vote in Hungary will test his clout
Vice President JD Vance traveled to Budapest to explicitly endorse Viktor Orbán and advocate for the administration's foreign political alignment.
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President Trump is aggressively using endorsements and diplomatic leverage to influence foreign elections in countries like Hungary and Argentina, shattering traditional U.S. norms of non-interference to bolster ideologically aligned, far-right leaders.
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