Tegucigalpa
Reuters
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Honduran presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla said last-minute interference from US President Donald Trump in the country’s closely fought election had damaged his chances of winning and left him trailing as vote counting dragged on.
Nasralla, a three-time presidential hopeful who describes himself as center-right, said in an interview with Reuters that Trump’s surprise endorsement last week of the conservative candidate Nasry Asfura had flipped the race.
“It hurt me because I was winning by a much larger margin,” Nasralla said at a hotel in downtown Tegucigalpa, rejecting Trump’s label of him as a “borderline communist.”
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