We pretty much knew it was coming, but now it’s official. Retired neurosurgeon, Ben Carson, has announced that he will be seeking the 2016 Republican nomination for president.

He will be making an formal announcement from his native Detroit on Monday.

Carson is most well known for his 29 years spent leading the pediatric neurosurgery unit of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore. Though he doesn’t have previous experience in politics, he seems to believe that that is exactly what sets him apart and will actually be an asset.

“I see myself as a member of ‘we the people,'” he told the Associated Press in an interview earlier this year, according to NBC. “I see myself as a logical American who has common sense, and I think that’s going to resonate with a lot of American, regardless of their political party.”

As of now, Carson will be competing against more established and organized conservative candidates like Senators Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Marco Rubio of Florida. But more are entering the race. Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive, also plans to formally enter the Republican race on Monday. And former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas plans to announce his second presidential campaign on Tuesday.

How Carson speaks to the public will be the most important part of his candidacy. He’s run into some problems in the past, but it looks like he’s addressing that head on.

The New York Times reported:

He has also undergone media training to round the edges off his incendiary language. In 2013, Mr. Carson was forced to withdraw as a commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins after linking same-sex marriage to pedophilia. He has pronounced the president’s health care law the worst thing to happen in American “since slavery.” And in March, he issued an apology after declaring that the experience of men in prison proved that homosexuality was a choice.

“I’ve come to recognize that when you use certain terms, people can no longer hear anything else you say,” Mr. Carson said in the interview before his announcement. “As you’ll notice in the last several weeks, I’ve been able to get my points across without inflammatory language.”