On Friday, Sen. Bob Casey officially ruled out a Presidential bid for 2020 after a couple of months of consideration.

.@SenBobCasey announces that he will not run for President after exploring it for two months. Key lines from his statement: pic.twitter.com/LO24KB93sB

— Dan Merica (@merica) January 18, 2019

“With all of these challenges confronting us, and with our commonwealth playing a potentially decisive role in the 2020 vote, I believed it was important for me to at least consider the monumental undertaking of running for president,” Casey said. “After two months of considering it, I have concluded that the best way for me to fight for the America that so many of us believe in is to stay in the U.S. Senate.”

Chatter about a possible presidential run began after an NBC News interview in which Casey didn’t deny considering seeking the Oval Office stating “we’ll see what happens” a week after notching his third victory for the Senate.

Casey acknowledged in an interview with PoliticsPA at PA Society that “there are stages to running” and a decision had to be made early in 2019.

The Senior Senator from Pennsylvania has said in various interviews that he expects a crowded field of candidates on the Democratic side for 2020 and although finishing 2018 seeing a rise in net approval rating, the time wasn’t right for him to run. He stated that he has “no doubt” that the Democratic Party will nominate a candidate who can win Pennsylvania and take back the White House.

Casey officially began his third term in the Senate earlier this month.