\u201cPerceptions of the current U.S. administration have been turning more negative in Hungary,\u201d said Mario Bikarski, an analyst at risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft.\u00a0\u201cVance\u2019s visit could have the opposite effect on Orb\u00e1n\u2019s popularity than the one intended.\u201d<\/p>\n
Orb\u00e1n and Vance continued to riff off each other at a rally later in the evening at a football stadium. The event was officially billed to celebrate the \u201cday of Hungarian-American friendship,\u201d but its campaign purpose was clear.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Orb\u00e1n pointedly praised Vance and his Munich speech last year, in which the vice president chastised Europeans for ignoring the will of their people, overturning elections, ignoring religious freedoms and not acting to halt illegal migration.<\/p>\n
On reaching the stage for his speech, Vance phoned Trump. On his first attempt the call went to voicemail. But after getting through Vance put Trump on the speaker. \u201cI am big fan of Viktor,\u201d Trump announced, praising Orb\u00e1n as \u201ca fantastic man,\u201d who \u201cdid not allow people to storm your country and invade your country like the people have and ruined other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n
Again Vance focused much of his speech on \u201cthe bureaucrats in Brussels, who should not be listened to.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to get Orb\u00e1n re-elected as prime minister of Hungary, don\u2019t we?\u201d Vance told the supporters of the governing Fidesz party, to rapturous applause.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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