New York state Sen. James Skoufis is running to be the next chair of the Democratic National Committee, the lawmaker announced over the weekend.

“I’m an outsider, but I know how to win. We’re losing on politics, messaging, organizing and policy. And we’ve been running the same stale, inside-the-Beltway playbook driven by the same, tired, inside-the-Beltway voices. No more. We’re doing it differently. That changes the day I am elected,” Skoufis said in a post on X on Saturday.

Skoufis represents the 42nd state Senate District in the lower Hudson Valley, which includes the city of Middletown, the town of New Windsor and West Point.

He was first elected to the state Senate in 2018. He previously served in the state Assembly and Woodbury Town Board.

Skoufis was reelected in November by 14 points in a district that the top of the ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris, lost by 10. He recently spoke with Capital Tonight on the future of the Democratic Party come January when Donald Trump returns to the White House and Republicans take full control of Congress, as well as the party’s performance in New York state over the last few election cycles.

“We have stopped competing. And we need to compete, and we need to win, and win big, again,” Skoufis said on X. “I do it every two years in a type of district that’s become out of reach for most Democrats. In fact, I outrun our own party and the GOP by double-digits each cycle in my red district in New York. And if I can do it, thousands of Democrats from the presidential level to county legislatures and school boards can do it, too.”

The DNC will elect their next chair in February.