Rusty Bowers, the Republican speaker of the Arizona state House of Representatives, on Tuesday detailed his efforts to thwart former President Donald Trumps attempt to steal the 2020 presidential election in stirring testimony to a select congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Bowers told the committee that Trump and his lawyers failed to produce any evidence of fraud, and that they asked him to ignore the law and overturn the election anyway. He became emotional, at times, as he described the barrage of violent threats he and his family have faced since.

Bowers read from a journal entry he wrote in December 2020, in which he completely dismissed the then-presidents efforts to undermine democracy: I do not want to be a winner by cheating, he wrote. I will not play with laws I swore allegiance to.

Hours later, Bowers said he would vote for Trump again.

If he is the nominee, if he was up against Biden, Id vote for him again, Bowers told The Associated Press . Simply because what he did the first time, before COVID, was so good for the county. In my view it was great.

Bowers was among a small group of Republican elected officials who broke with Trump and refused to go along with the plot to overturn the 2020 election. Now, he is the latest among them to suggest that he would still support Trump in a future contest, even as the former president and his Republican allies intensify their efforts to undermine American democracy.