Former Rep. Mondaire Jones announced Wednesday he will run for Congress in New York’s 17th Congressional District, setting up a highly anticipated comeback bid and a possibly brutal Democratic primary in a key swing seat.

“Most people in Washington didn’t grow up like me,” Jones said in a campaign video. “They have no idea what it’s like to struggle. We got to get Washington back on the side of working people. I know we can do better. For me, this is personal.”

Jones will face a Democratic primary against Liz Whitmer Gereghty, an education advocate and the sister of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Gereghty, who serves on a school board in the district, has been courting support from members of the Michigan congressional delegation and is expected to carve out a more moderate lane in the race. Democrats are anxious to flip the seat currently held by Republican Rep. Mike Lawler.

Jones became one of the first two openly gay Black men elected to Congress when he first won his seat in 2020. As a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Jones supported “Medicare for All” and the “Green New Deal,” while also voting for increased police funding and the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure deal. Jones also voted to approve funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system in 2022, a nod to his district’s sizable Hasidic Jewish population.

After redistricting placed him in the same district as former Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, then the chair of House Democrats’ campaign arm, Jones opted not to run in the 17th District, even though it contained most of his old district in the lower Hudson Valley. He instead ran in the Manhattan-based 10th District, losing to Dan Goldman in the primary. Maloney then went on to lose to Lawler by less than a percentage point, one of many upsets Democrats experienced in New York House races. President Joe Biden carried the 17th district by 10 points in 2020.