Gov. Janet Mills has pledged to serve only one term in the U.S. Senate if elected.

The Democrat, who launched her primary bid to face off against U.S. Sen. Susan Collins next year on Tuesday, made that pledge in an interview with the Boston Globe .

“I would not plan to serve more than one term,” she told the Globe.

Her Tuesday morning announcement was highly anticipated after news leaked last week that Mills planned to run and after her campaign inadvertently posted, and then took down, a fundraising video Friday.

It’s a marked turnaround from her position earlier this year that she had no plans to run for office after finishing her second term as governor.

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