Alaska Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Begich dropped his bid to be the state’s next governor on Friday, endorsing the only other Democrat in the four-person general election race.

Begich, who finished second among the top four candidates in Alaska’s open gubernatorial primary, cited his reason for dropping out as a lack of sufficient fundraising and the available opportunity to coalesce Democratic voters around a single candidate. With Begich dropping from the race, it leaves Democratic former State Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, who finished in first place in the open primary, as the sole Democratic candidate left to face off against Republicans Bernadette Wilson and Dave Bronson.

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