Charlie Crist. | AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File Crist to announce bid for Congress next week

Former Florida governor Charlie Crist is set to announce his bid for Congress during a Tuesday press conference in St. Petersburg.

A release from Kevin Cate, an adviser to Crist’s failed 2014 bid for governor, says Crist will make a “major announcement.”

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Crist, a Democrat, has already said he would run for the St. Petersburg-based 13th Congressional District, which was made favorable for a Democratic candidate as the result of a legal challenge to the state’s current congressional lines.

The district almost certain to be approved by the Florida Supreme Court was won by president Obama by 54 percent, and is widely considered a safe pickup for Democrats.

It’s currently held by Rep. David Jolly, a Republican who decided to run for U.S. Senate when it became clear the seat would become difficult for a Republican to win.

The new seat includes South St. Petersburg’s largely black, Democratic-leaning voters.

Democrat Eric Lynn is already running for the seat. He raised $150,000 during the third quarter, and has $500,000 cash on hand.

Crist’s decision running for his hometown congressional seat represents a considerable diminution of his ambitions.

When Crist was governor, he was a Republican, and he was considered one of that party’s ascendant figures, at one point finding himself on a short list to become the running mate of 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain.

Crist left the Republican Party in April 2010 as it became clear he would not defeat Marco Rubio in the GOP primary for U.S. Senate. Crist was ultimately trounced in the general election. He then joined the Democrat Party and ran as its nominee for governor in 2014, narrowly losing to Gov. Rick Scott.

With two statewide losses and party switches at his back, Crist is now returning home to run for a congressional seat that party leaders will almost certainly try to hand him.