Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state who refused to find nearly 12,000 votes to overturn former President Donald Trump s 2020 election loss in the state, is projected to win reelection on Tuesday, defeating Democratic state Rep. Bee Nguyen.

Raffensperger led Nguyen 54% to 44% with 85% of votes counted. Nguyen tweeted that she had called Raffensperger to concede.

Raffenspergers refusal to acquiesce to Trumps anti-democratic efforts to undermine the election turned him into a massive target of the former presidents movement. The Georgia Republican and his family were subject to death threats and sexualized threats of violence, as he later testified to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

A year ago, most Georgia political experts considered Raffenspergers reelection bid dead in the water .

Right-wing U.S. Rep. Jody Hice, who twice voted to contest the election results in Congress, launched a primary challenge and immediately earned Trumps endorsement. And Democrats , fresh off a trio of 2020 election wins in Georgia, launched an all-out blitz to take over statewide offices that had barely eluded them in 2018.

But Raffensperger crushed Hice in the GOP primary, then defeated Nguyen who also rose to prominence for fighting Trumps efforts to delegitimize the Georgia results in the general election.