In a four-minute campaign video, Pataki says “it is time to stand up, protect our freedom and take back this country.”
“If we are to flourish as a people, we have to fall in love with America again,” he says in the video, which features images of the Freedom Tower and the 9/11 memorial in New York City.
His personal website, which sports a new “Pataki for President” banner, emphasizes that he’ll place “people over politics.”
Pataki, who served as the three-term governor of New York, is viewed as an extreme longshot for the nomination, with little name recognition outside his home state.
This story originally appeared on NBC News
Carrie Dann