Republican Steve Hilton clinched the second spot Monday night in California’s gubernatorial primary, meaning he will face former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra in November’s general election. Nearly a week after polls closed, Newsmax and Decision Desk HQ called the second spot for Hilton, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump. With 84% of the vote counted, Hilton had 25.2%, trailing Becerra (27.7%), a Democrat, by roughly 202,000 votes.

Democrat billionaire Tom Steyer (22.4%) finished third in a primary that featured more than 60 candidates. It took nearly a week to determine who would face Becerra in November because of California’s notoriously slow vote-counting process. Ballots are mailed to every eligible voter and they are counted if they are postmarked by Election Day and arrive at an election office within seven days. California processes and counts mail-in ballots in roughly the order they are received, so the last ones returned are the last ones counted.

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