Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., announced his presidential campaign Monday on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He will be holding a town hall at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Gallery Room of the Memorial Union.

Swalwell’s campaign highlights the issue of gun control, the first issue listed on the “My Plan” section of his website, and he held a town hall on ending gun violence near the site of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting Tuesday.

In Congress, Swalwell is Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Intelligence Modernization and Readiness, in addition to serving as a member on several other committees. In the 2016 Democratic Presidential Primary, Swalwell initially endorsed former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley before endorsing eventual nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after O’Malley withdrew from the race.

Swalwell joins nearly 20 other former or current elected office holders seeking the Democratic party nomination for president in 2020, including fellow Californian, Sen. Kamala Harris. He has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since the 2012 election, defeating a 20-term incumbent Democrat in the general election through California’s blanket primary system.

Like fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Beto O’Rourke, Tim Ryan, Tulsi Gabbard and John Delaney, Swalwell is trying to break a historical trend. All of these candidates’ most recent experience in elected office was the U.S. House of Representatives, from which no candidate has been elected president without other experience in higher office since President James Garfield in 1880.

The most recent Selzer poll of likely Iowa caucus goers found only 30 percent of voters had an opinion of Swalwell, with 70 percent either having no opinion or not knowing enough about him to have one. Zero voters who were polled listed Swalwell as their first choice for president. However, this poll was entirely conducted before he announced his candidacy.