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Americans Notice the Impact of Orbán's Defeat on American Conservatives and Trump
The defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has made a significant impact in the United States, wrote the American AP agency regarding the election results in the nine-million-strong country. The reason is that President Donald Trump and many American conservatives have long supported Orbán, who has become an icon of the global right due to his anti-immigration stance. The agenda of the American president shows striking parallels with the way the Hungarian leader used government levers to influence the media, judiciary, and electoral system to keep his party in power for 16 years.
Trump supported Orbán's effort for re-election and even sent Vice President J. D. Vance to Budapest in the middle of the war with Iran last week to campaign in support of the incumbent prime minister. Orbán's defeat highlighted how the war has weakened Trump's ability to help allied politicians abroad, and also the limited ability of leaders to use their power to influence voting in their favor during a time of global dissatisfaction with incumbent politicians of all ideological directions.
