Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks will not be running for governor of Maryland in 2022. She will seek a second term as county executive instead.

Alsobrooks confirmed her plans in an interview with The Washington Post. She told the outlet she “knows there will be opportunities to serve on a higher level” down the road—but she would prefer for now to focus on helping Prince George’s County recover from the coronavirus pandemic and being there for her 16-year-old daughter as she finishes high school.

Alsobrooks is a popular politician—both within her county and more broadly among Democrats in the state. She out-fundraised other known gubernatorial frontrunners last year, and she has been repeatedly asked about plans to run for higher office throughout her term as county executive.

On WAMU’s The Politics Hour in March, Alsobrooks said that “in this moment I’m running for re-election for county executive” but declined at that time to definitively say she wasn’t running for governor.

Alsobrooks said she still felt she had work to do in the county.

“I have some things I have promised Prince Georgians and I am going to continue to work to make sure that I deliver those things to Prince Georgians,” Alsobrooks told The Politics Hour. “I am completely committed to getting my county through this pandemic, making sure we’re able to stand up and address the inequities in health care, in food delivery, in education and other areas. And I love Prince Georgians and I think they love me, too.”

Alsobrooks told the Post that if re-elected, she plans to use her next term as county executive to address the inequality that the pandemic further exposed—by investing in more medical infrastructure and development, building new schools with public-private partnerships, and continuing reform efforts in the police department.

Critics of the county executive have said she has not gone far enough to address the county’s longstanding economic inequities or police brutality and racism in the county’s police department.

Alsobrooks currently only has one declared opponent in the county executive race; the only candidate who has filed paperwork to run as of now is Tonya Sweat.

In the governor’s race, the Democratic primary field so far includes Maryland attorney general Douglas F. Gansler, Comptroller Peter Franchot, former U.S. education secretary John B. King, former Montgomery County Council candidate Ashwani Jain, and Mike Rosenbaum, a Baltimore business owner and economic advisor to former President Bill Clinton —though other prominent Maryland democrats are mulling gubernatorial bids as well.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan (R) will run up against his term limit next year, so he will not be able to seek re-election. The Republican field so far includes his commerce secretary, Kelly M. Schulz and Robin Ficker, a former state delegate and anti-tax activist.