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Second District Congressman Markwayne Mullin will seek a fourth term, saying he has come to believe that his 2012 campaign promise to serve only six years in Congress was ill-advised.

“The last thing we want is to make people think we’re going back on our word. That made this difficult,” Mullin said Monday night. “At the time, we were sincere. But where we’re at today is a different situation.”

Mullin and his wife, Christie Mullin, publicly announced his decision in an 11-minute video released on social media Tuesday morning.

“We understand that people are going to be upset,” Mullin says in the video. “We get that. We understand that. I’m not hiding from that. Because we did say we’re going to serve six years.”

The Mullins say they made their decision based largely on Mullin’s belief that he can “make a difference.”