Former NAACP President Ben Jealous is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor of Maryland, the civil rights leader announced in Baltimore on Wednesday.

Jealous, 44, was the second Democrat to enter into the race against incumbent Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, who is up for re-election in November 2018. Alec Ross, a 45-year-old technology entrepreneur and for-mer adviser in the Barack Obama ad-ministration, announced his candidacy last April.

Hogan boasts a high approval rating in the state, but the state elec-torate is majority Democrat.

Jealous made his campaign announcement outside Baltimore Blos-som Studio, a floral shop his cousin opened after civil unrest in the city in 2015. He criticized Republicans, claiming Hogan has failed to stand up to President Donald Trump.

Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.), former Attorney General Douglas Gansler, Prince George’s County Ex-ecutive Rushern Baker, Baltimore County executive Kevin Kamenetz, Baltimore attorney James Shea and state Sen. Richard Madaleno are all reportedly considering running for Maryland’s Democratic gubernatorial nomination.

In 2008, 35-year-old Jealous became the youngest person to ever

lead the NAACP. During his five-year tenure at the organization, Jealous pre-sided over significant membership and revenue growth, registered hundreds of thousands of voters, and participated in successful fights to ban the death penalty in Connecticut and Maryland.

Jealous was born and raised in California, but his mother hails from Baltimore and he frequently visited his grandparents there.

Jealous is a partner at Kapor Capital, a venture capital firm in Oak-land, California, that focuses on social-ly progressive investments.

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Ben Jealous announces his bid to become Maryland Governor

He is the former National NAACP president