The presidential election in Honduras gained global attention after President Donald Trump endorsed the country's right-wing candidate this week.

According to Newsmax, as voting began, Nasry Asfura, the Conservative National Party candidate endorsed by President Trump over the weekend, appeared to have a slim lead over his opponent. 

Preliminary votes on Monday showed Asfura gaining just over 40% of the votes, barely edging out Liberal Party candidate Salvador Nasralla, who was sitting at 39%.

Rixi Moncada, of the ruling LIBRE party, was quite a bit behind the two leaders at only 20%, and isn't expected to gain much more support or momentum as the country's population is largely looking for a new leadership style.

What's going on?

While it's somewhat rare for a foreign candidate to receive an endorsement from an American president, Trump wasn't shy about heaping praise on Asfura in the run-up to the country's Election Day.

Newsmax noted:

In the run-up, Trump weighed in on the tightly contested race to throw his support behind Asfura in a series of social media posts, saying he can work with him to counter drug trafficking and that "if he doesn't win, the United States will not be throwing good money after bad."

"The man who is standing up for Democracy and fighting against Maduro is Tito Asfura, the Presidential Candidate of the National Party. Tito was the highly successful Mayor of Tegucigalpa, where he brought running water to millions and paved hundreds of kilometers of roads," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

He added, "His chief opponent is Rixi Moncada, who says Fidel Castro is her idol."

The president went on to slam the LIBRE Party candidate as a "borderline communist."

Altering results?

In late-breaking news, President Trump posted an alarming message regarding the Honduran election, accusing officials of "altering" the results.

"It seems that Honduras is trying to alter the results of its presidential elections. If they do that, there will be a scandal! The Honduran people voted massively on November 30. The National Electoral Commission, the official body in charge of the vote count, abruptly suspended the counting at midnight on November 30," Trump wrote in another Truth Social post.

He added, "The count showed a tight race between Tito Asfura and Salvador Nasralla, with Asfura holding a narrow lead of 500 votes. The count was stopped when only 47% of the votes had been tallied. It is imperative that the Commission finish counting the votes. Hundreds of thousands of Hondurans' votes must be counted. Democracy must prevail!"

It'll be interesting to see what the final tally is and what happens if the elections were, in fact, altered.