Former vice president Mike Pence released a three-minute video announcing his 2024 presidential campaign Wednesday morning, casting himself as a transitional leader who can undo the damage of the Biden administration and move the country past the infighting of the Trump presidency.

Pence, who filed to run on Monday, will give a speech in Des Moines Wednesday afternoon and participate in a CNN town hall in the evening.

“We’re better than this,” Pence says in the video after describing the ills facing the country.

“Today, our party and our country need a leader who will appeal, as Lincoln said, to the better angels of our nature,” he goes on to say.

“I have long believed, to whom much is given, much will be required,” explained Pence. “My family and I have been blessed beyond measure with opportunities to serve this nation, and it’d be easy to stay on the sidelines. But that’s not how I was raised. That’s why today, before God and my family, I’m announcing I’m running for president of the United States.”