(Philadelphia, Pa.) A Philadelphia Democrat Pa State Representative said Thursday that he is running for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat in next year’s election.

Thirty-Year-old Malcolm Kenyatta is in his second term in the Pa. State House of Representatives.

The grandson of the late civil rights activist Muhammad I. Kenyatta.

Kenyatta is jumping in a race that Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has also declared for on the Democratic ticket. On the Republican side Jeff Bartos, the GOP’s unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor in 2018, has filed paperwork to run. There are numerous first-time candidates running on both parties tickets.

The seat up for grabs is Senator Pat Toomey’s who announced in October that he would not be seeking a third term.