The centrist Liberal Party candidate Salvador Nasralla widened his narrow lead over the Trump-endorsed conservative candidate Nasry "Tito" Asfura in the Honduran presidential election, with a White House threat of "hell to pay" hanging over the ongoing count.

At the time of writing, Nasralla leads Asfura by 40.35 percent to 39.56 percent of the more than two-thirds of votes counted so far, according to the Honduras National Electoral Council, a gap of more than 19,000 votes. Asfura was initially in the lead on Monday by just a few hundred votes, a virtual tie. Election authorities have cited technical problems in the vote count.

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to pull funding from Honduras if Asfura loses, saying before the vote that he "will not be throwing good money after bad

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