Move over Gov. Wes Moore. Looks like Maryland may have another politician with aspirations for the White House.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen said on a podcast released Wednesday that he was “kicking the tires” on a possible 2028 presidential run, joining a long list of potential contenders that includes Moore.

Van Hollen sat down with “On NOTUS” host Igor Bobic for an interview about the Iran war, Israel, the Democratic Party and the midterm elections.

Bobic said some of the plans Van Hollen had pitched during the show that aired Tuesday sounded like a possible 2028 platform. Combined with the second-term senator’s recent trips to New Hampshire and Iowa, Bobic pressed him.

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“What are you doing here? What’s going on?” he asked.

Van Hollen said he went to some of the early-voting presidential primary states because he was invited by state party Dems, ”but I would say, kind of kicking the tires a little bit."

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Requests for comment to Van Hollen’s campaign office were not immediately returned.

Maryland’s senior senator has been working to raise his national profile in the last year and a half.

He has attempted to set himself apart from establishment Democrats, calling on leaders to back economic populists, such as New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Leaders Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Chuck Schumer, both from New York, withheld their support from Mamdani during the peak of his campaign.

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Van Hollen went to El Salvador to visit his constituent Kilmar Ábrego García, who was wrongfully deported by the Trump administration even though party insiders warned against taking on the sticky political issue of immigration.

Van Hollen has also spoken out against the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza and weighed in on Democratic primaries across the country.

The affable Montgomery County politician told Bobic he thinks Democrats need to “shake things up” in 2028. He’d focus on closing a yawning economic divide.

Criticizing Trump may work for the minority party during a midterm, he said. Those elections are often a referendum on the party in power. But moving forward, Democrats need a plan.

“Going into 2028,” he said, “the idea that we’re simply going to return to the pre-Trump status quo is a big mistake.”