MS NOW host Chris Hayes on Tuesday clowned Vice President JD Vance over his “tough seven days” after his visit to Hungary, his failed negotiations to end the Iran war and his warning to Pope Leo XIV to “stick to matters of morality.”
“I feel like there’s always the threat for a vice president to become a ‘Veep’-like figure,” said Hayes while referring to the political satire comedy series prior to an interview with “Pod Save America” host Jon Lovett.
“It could be a very dangerous and precarious political position because you are the No. 2, because you don’t actually get to control your own destiny in some ways. You can’t break with the president. And I feel like he’s had a real ‘Veep’-like week.”
Hayes recapped Vance’s “string of failures” starting with his attempt to draw support for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who lost “decisively” in his reelection bid on Sunday after the vice president’s speech at one of his rallies.
Vance later claimed on Fox News that the administration knew there was a “very good chance” that Orbán, who wasn’t doing hot in the polls, would lose and the visit was a matter of standing behind an autocrat who “stood by us.”
