Beto O’Rourke is closing in on making a decision about whether he’ll run for president.

For weeks, O’Rourke has said he could make his decision as soon as the end of the month. With just days left in February and at least 10 Democratic contenders having already jumped into the race, the El Paso Democrat has told reporters that a decision is near.

"I'm trying to figure out how I can best serve this country, where I can do the greatest good for the United States of America, so yeah, I’m thinking through that, and it, you know, may involve running for the presidency, it may involve something else," O'Rourke said in El Paso last week.

Here are four reasons O’Rourke might want to join the race, and four reasons he might skip it:

Four reasons O’Rourke would stay out:

1. Children. The list starts with the issue he explained to Oprah Winfrey earlier this month. “For me, it will really be family,” O’Rourke said after Winfrey asked him point blank what might stop him from running. He and his wife Amy have three young children whose routines would be dramatically changed if he began campaigning for the White House, not to mention what happens if he wins.

2. Texas Democrats need him more. There is no shortage of Democrats running for president. But in Texas, there has been a dearth of well-financed Democrats for other statewide offices like governor. If O’Rourke set his sites on running for governor, lieutenant governor or U.S. Senate again in a fast-changing state, he could give the party its best shot at winning a statewide office — something that hasn’t happened since 1994.

3. Experience. O’Rourke has 12 years in elective office between the city council in El Paso and his 6 years in Congress. It would be one of the lightest political résumés for a Democratic nominee for President in the last 100 years. Since World War I, only one Democratic nominee for president had not previously served in the Senate, as a governor or as a vice president. In 1924, West Virginia's John W. Davis ran against Calvin Coolidge, though Davis had never been a governor or a U.S. Senator. His only previous elected office was winning two terms in the U.S. House.

4. Primary War. When he ran against U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018, O’Rourke never had to out-Democrat other Democrats in a primary. He had primary opposition, but hardly anyone noticed because none of the opponents were well-known or well-financed. That would not be the case this time. For O’Rourke to take on President Donald Trump, he’d first have to contend with the likes of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and, potentially, Joe Biden. That means having to possibly go left and then shoot back to the middle in a general election, something O’Rourke benefited from not having to do in 2018. That is not to say O’Rourke is foreign to primary battles. In 2012, he famously took out a sitting incumbent in a Democratic Primary in El Paso to win a seat in Congress.

Four reasons O’Rourke would jump in:

1. The Moment. In presidential politics, the hot hand is temporary. If O’Rourke doesn’t run now, it may be his only shot at being president. Consider Sen. Barack Obama, who took his shot despite having just two years in the U.S. Senate under his belt when he announced. Or think of Mario Cuomo in 1992, who was considered a potential favorite but passed on running for the White House. Cuomo was never considered a serious contender for the White House after that. O’Rourke is polling near the top of the field even before even confirming he's in the race.

2. The Money. In raising $80 million for his U.S. Senate campaign, O’Rourke didn’t just set records for a Senate race — his haul also ended up being closer what a presidential candidate might raise. In 2016, legitimate contenders like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio combined to raise $76 million, according to the Federal Election Commission. In other words, O’Rourke could certainly raise the money to legitimately contend in the early states if he can just get his past donors to believe in him again.

3. He’s not 70. With Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren all in their 70s or soon to be, O’Rourke, 46, would give Democrats a more dramatic contrast with President Donald Trump, who is also in his 70s. That alone could inspire younger voters to get more involved and help drive a new generation of voters to the ballot box that a Biden vs. Trump match might struggle to do. While he doesn’t have the political experience of many of the other candidates in the field, his relative youth could give him an advantage.

4. Early Texas. The primary calendar could be ideal for O’Rourke. If O’Rourke can replicate his frenetic pace of grassroots campaigning in Texas in smaller states like Iowa, he could be in a prime position to win early momentum. If he survives the early four states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, Texas’s massive haul of delegates would be next up on Super Tuesday on March 3, 2020. Assuming he wins at least one early state, Texas could be in a position to give him a big boost that candidates from smaller states would be hard pressed to match in their home states. Of course, he doesn’t have a free path to those Texas votes, given the national profile of other contenders and Julián Castro, another native Texan already in the race.