{"id":8488,"date":"2026-04-13T13:46:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/8488\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:46:35","slug":"did-jd-vance-accidentally-help-defeat-orban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/8488\/","title":{"rendered":"Did JD Vance accidentally help defeat Orb\u00e1n?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Did JD Vance accidentally help defeat Orb\u00e1n?\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5KjLTkU5SS8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nDid JD Vance accidentally help defeat Orb\u00e1n?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHungary has woken up to a political earthquake. After more than a decade in power, Viktor Orb\u00e1n has been defeated, with P\u00e9ter Magyar securing a historic landslide victory in an election seen as a major test for democracy in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a slap in the face for Donald Trump &#8211; after JD Vance called on Hungarians to support their incumbent leader. But did his attempt to raise support for Orban do the exact opposite?<\/p>\n<p>Could this mark a turning point not just for Hungary, but for Europe more broadly? And does this result signal a shift away from populist politics &#8211; or is the bigger story still to come?<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of The Fourcast, Matt Frei is joined by Hungarian journalist and disinformation expert Szil\u00e1rd Tecz\u00e1r and political analyst Mujtaba Rahman to unpack how this happened &#8211; and what it means for the future of Hungary &#8211; and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did JD Vance accidentally help defeat Orb\u00e1n? Hungary has woken up to a political earthquake. After more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[366,352,12403,365,12400,14,12398,3301,511,11058,904,9263,12397,354,2325,1569,353,12401,12399,12402,341,12396,235],"class_list":{"0":"post-8488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-channel-4-news","8":"tag-channel-4","9":"tag-channel-4-news","10":"tag-channel-4-news-europe","11":"tag-channel4","12":"tag-democracy-hungary","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-eu-politics-news","15":"tag-europe-elections","16":"tag-fourcast-podcast","17":"tag-hungarian-politics","18":"tag-hungary","19":"tag-hungary-election-2026","20":"tag-hungary-opposition-victory","21":"tag-international-news","22":"tag-jd-vance","23":"tag-landslide","24":"tag-latest-news","25":"tag-orban-government","26":"tag-populism-europe","27":"tag-rule-of-law-eu","28":"tag-uk-news","29":"tag-viktor-orban-defeat","30":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116397736379461606","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}