GOP lawmaker abruptly cancels on CNN after Trump’s defense of election meddling rocks the political landscape

According to a report from the Guardian, Donald Trump made a remote address to attendees at a CPAC conference in Hungary that was followed by a forum hosted by a notorious talk show host famous for referring to Jews as 'stinking excrement” along with attacking the Black Lives Matter movement.

As the Guardian's Julian Borger and Flora Garamvolgyi report, Trump was introduced to the crowd and appeared on a video screen where he praised recently re-elected prime minister Viktor Orbán, telling the audience, "He is a great leader, a great gentleman, and he just had a very big election result. I was very honored to endorse him."

In his column for Intelligencer, political analyst Ed Kilgore predicted Donald Trump will have a very bad day on Tuesday when Georgia voters go to the polls and reject Republican Party candidates who were gifted with his endorsements.

That, in turn, has Republicans worrying how the former president will react as candidates he has vociferously opposed move on to the general election in November.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he had conceded defeat in a national election on Saturday, saying that while vote counting was incomplete the opposition Labor party looked likely to form a government.

"Tonight I have spoken to the Leader of the Opposition and the incoming Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, and I've congratulated him on his election victory this evening," Morrison said at a televised speech in Sydney.