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Vice President JD Vance traveled to Budapest on April 7, 2026, to address a "Day of Friendship" rally for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán five days before parliamentary elections, putting President Trump on speakerphone to declare "I'm with him all the way." The visit — unprecedented for a sitting U.S. vice president openly campaigning for a foreign leader — comes as Orbán trails opposition challenger Péter Magyar by double digits and faces EU proceedings over media freedom and rule-of-law violations, raising sharp questions about the alignment of American executive power with a governance model that Freedom House rates only "Partly Free."