Maine Democratic Rep. Jared Golden won reelection against GOP state Rep. Austin Theriault in a battleground Maine House district, The Associated Press projected.

Golden prevailed after a ranked-choice tabulation completed Friday, 50.35 percent to 49.65 percent, with all other voters redistributed.

Golden’s district, which former President Donald Trump won by roughly 6 percentage points in 2020, was a top Republican target this cycle. Theriault hammered Golden over inflation and the economy, and Republicans also attacked Golden for reversing his position on banning assault weapons following a series of mass shootings in 2023 in Lewiston, Maine, his district’s largest city.

Eighteen people were killed in the shooting, and Golden called his previous opposition to a ban a “failure.”

Golden, a co-chair of the centrist Blue Dog Coalition, took an iconoclastic approach to his campaign and declined to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential candidacy.