“What we stand to learn from Orban’s defeat”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

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4.5 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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After nearly 16 years in power, Orban lost his re-election bid, signaling to America’s far-right that the tide might be changing.

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0:00.0	Of the nearly 200 different countries on the face of the earth,
0:07.7	precisely one of them, has an elected leader who publicly identifies as a Western-style conservative.
0:13.7	His name is Victor Orban.
0:15.5	He's the prime minister of Hungary.
0:17.2	I mean, Hungary is doing things right.
0:18.7	They have a leader who is putting the people of that
0:21.8	country first. One of my heroes in the world today, in addition to President Trump, is Victor
0:28.7	Orban. Mr. President, you are on with about 5,000 Hungarian patriots, and I think they love you
0:34.5	even more than they love Victor Orban.
0:37.3	Well, I can't believe that.
0:39.3	I can't believe that because I love hungry and I love that Victor.
0:44.0	I'll tell you, he's a fantastic man.
0:48.8	I love that Victor.
0:51.4	So I'm good that did him.
0:52.4	Hi again, everybody.
0:53.4	It's now 5 o'clock in New York.
0:54.5	It is difficult to imagine a more urgent question before the far right movement this afternoon.
1:00.3	The G-ray did version of which is this. What the heck just happened in Hungary and elsewhere.
1:06.7	We're going to spend the hour evaluating what certainly feels like a paradigm shift in political
1:11.7	energy. But that conversation has to start with what you just heard those figures describe.
1:16.6	A hand-in-glove love affair, many years in the making between America's far right and a foreign
1:22.6	leader, a political kindred spirit by their telling, now so completely and unceremoniously kicked to the curb
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