Moore Capito, 40, on Tuesday announced his intention to become the state’s governor in 2024. The son of Republican West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito, he has served in the West Virginia House of Delegates since 2016.

“I may have not always put the most points on the board, but I’ve had my fair share,” Capito told West Virginia MetroNews host Hoppy Kercheval after formally announcing his run. “I would defy you and challenge anybody who worked harder.

“You may or may not recall in our state championship game in the basketball Civic Center, you were on the call when I came crashing into the scorer’s table diving for a ball. … I will tell you, I think if the state of West Virginia wants to go to that next level, we need somebody that will dive for the ball. And I’ve been doing that my whole life.”

Capito also told Kercheval that he is running because he “has skin in the game like so many West Virginians.”

“Together, we can build a West Virginia that makes our young people proud to call home and champions freedom to conduct business how you want,” he said in a tweet.

The term of current Republican West Virginia Governor Jim Justice concludes in 2024 and he cannot run again because he is term-limited.

Justice, the former billionaire who switched his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican after winning his gubernatorial election in 2016, said last week that he is “very seriously considering running for Senate” against moderate Democrat Senator Joe Manchin.

Other Republicans in West Virginia have also announced senatorial campaigns, or have said they are considering flipping the important seat from blue to red.

Not only is his mother a senator, but Capito comes from a lineage of Republican politicians who’ve had a strong stake in West Virginia politics.

Arch Moore, his grandfather and the father of Senator Capito, began his political career as a legislator in West Virginia in 1952. He later served as the longest-running governor in state history, representing West Virginians for 12 years in two separate stints: the first from 1969 to 1977, the second from 1985 to 1989.

West Virginia MetroNews reported that West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner is also considering a gubernatorial run. Moore Capito’s cousin, State Treasurer Riley Moore, last week announced his run for a U.S. House seat.

Newsweek has reached out to Capito and Justice for comment.