Former New York Gov. George Pataki has cast his bid in the growing list of Republican candidates running in the 2016 presidential nomination.

Pataki announced his run for the White House in a campaign video titled "Announcement," which was published on YouTube and his website Thursday morning.

"My vision was not a partisan vision. It was a vision about people, about what we could accomplish together," said the 69-year-old moderate Republican in the four-minute announcement video. "If we are to flourish as a people, we have to fall in love with America again."

In the video, Pataki touted the fact that he was a three-term governor in "a very deep blue state."

"My vision was not a partisan vision, it was a vision about people," he says. "It is time to stand up, protect our freedom, and take back this government."

He also held his first campaign event Thursday morning in Exeter, New Hampshire, telling supporters the government was intruding on their personal freedoms.

"It is to preserve and protect those freedoms that I announce I'm a candidate for president of the United States," he said in the small town where the Republican Party was born, according to NPR.

Before serving as New York's governor from 1995 to 2006, Pataki was elected as the mayor of his hometown of Peekskill in upstate New York. He then moved on to work in the state legislature.

This will mark his first presidential campaign, however, his chances of getting elected as the GOP nominee are slim. He faces stiff competition from popular Republican candidates like Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Rand Paul.

On Wednesday, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum officially launched his second run for the White House.

The 57-year-old father of seven made the announcement during a speech delivered at a factory in his home state, where he criticized big government, big business and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

"Working families don't need another president tied to big government or big money," he said, according to The New York Times.

Watch Pataki's campaign announcement video below.