This is Brian Lair's Daily Politics podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Thursday, April 16th.

I'm Amina Surnah, a producer for the Brian Lair show, filling in for Brian today.

We begin with Vice President J.D. Vance and his involvement. a producer for the Brian Lair Show, filling in for Brian today.

We began with Vice President J.D. Vance and his involvement in Victor Orban's campaign for Prime Minister of Hungary.

The Vice President campaigned alongside the autocrat in Budapest last week, but Orban was ultimately defeated by the opposition party, led by Peter Magyar, a conservative.

Isaac Stanley Becker writes for the Atlantic, "...Seldom have American leaders intervened so overtly in a foreign election, and seldom has their

preferred candidate fared so badly.

Orban has been in office since 2010, making him the longest-serving

head of government in the European Union. And in addition to closely aligning with the,

in addition to closely aligning the Hungarian government with Russia, Orban has become closely aligned

with President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement.

As the New York Times puts it, MAGA has long shared DNA with Orban's brand of right-wing politics.

Both take a hard line anti-immigration stance.

Both have attempted curbing press freedoms.

And both movements are raising the alarm on falling

birth rates of who they see as their native populations. So, given Orban's defeat, all the more

stunning considering the heavy gerrymandering he himself put into place in his country, is there

a message in his loss for the Trump administration and the MAGA movement,

particularly as Vice President Vance asserts himself as the frontrunner in the 28 presidential

race. Joining us now to break down the latest is Eli Stokel's White House and Foreign Affairs

correspondent at Politico. Eli, welcome back to WMYC.

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