Look, you can complain about the refs. But if the pass is incomplete, the play is dead.

Trump constantly speaks the language of humiliation—saying of world leaders, “They’re laughing at us.” Harris turns this back on him, saying world leaders “laugh at you.” Trump responds by invoking the praise of Viktor Orban, the authoritarian ruler of Hungary.

Bound to play extremely well with the undecided pro-Fidesz demographics in PA and MI.

He will not look at her it is amazing. He is seething. I’ve never seen anything like it.

She’s nailing it on Putin.

I completely underestimated Kamala Harris. I never believed she’d put in a performance like this. She looks totally presidential.

Trump is actually pretty hard to debate. He may not “win” the debates, but he doesn’t really lose either. IMO the debate with Harris was the first time he got his a*s kicked. She completely smoked him.

The moderators asked Harris really tough questions about Afghanistan and her changing position on fracking, and asked Trump really easy questions about immigration and who won the last election. It was so unfair.

Peter Magyar's Tisza party measures 39% support vs. Fidesz 43%. If this continues, there will only be two parties in Hungary, which is bad for Orban. I do wonder, though, how Tisza will be able to field enough candidates to run a national campaign hang.hu/belfold/uj-med…

Trump's debate has gone just as well as the Hungarian economy is doing

💥🇭🇺 Bombshell new poll shows opposition leader Péter Magyar's Respect and Freedom (TISZA) party polling 39 percent against the 43 percent of PM Orbán's ruling Fidesz-KDNP coalition among decided voters (25 against 30 percent among all adult citizens): hvg.hu/360/20240911_M…

“A man who is not suffering from whatever disease of the soul with which Vance is afflicted would have a hard time even imagining wanting to be vice president—of all petty things!—that bad” thedispatch.com/newsletter/wan…

Waiting for flight transfer at London Heathrow and the sound system is currently playing the theme from Gallipoli. 🤔

Heritage Foundation and Danube Institute’s event in Budapest.

David Baer on tough talk in Hungarian politics: "Why wasn't anyone talking like this in America?"🤔

Exciting times ahead in US foreign policy, whatever the outcome of the elections is going to be. Budapest Forum panel with sharp experts Nathalie Tocci (online) Botond Feledy and David Baer moderated by Flora Garamvolgyi . Outlierism in China-policy by HU will not be tolerated.

David Pressman, the US ambassador in Budapest, said there must be “a reckoning for Hungary’s allies and partners." “We too have to recognise that what we used to dismiss with an eyeroll requires us to look at it directly, and respond to it unflinchingly.” theguardian.com/world/2024/sep…

This was a scary speech if you’re Hungarian and think the country benefits from the Western alliance. Seems like US patience is running out

I find it hard to believe the US Ambassador gives a speech like this and there’s no follow up.

To demonstrate Hungary is not part of the “Soros empire” Orban gov minister asserts the US is responsible for the war in Ukraine, and wonders why his gov has bad relations with the US