Texas Gov. Rick Perry is wasting no time laying the groundwork for a potential bid for president in 2016.
Not one week after Americans cast their votes in the midterm elections, Perry will travel Sunday and Monday to New Hampshire, the pivotal first-in-the-nation primary state, for a series of six events.
The news was reported first by NH Journal and confirmed by the Washington Examiner.
Perry has already begun to test the presidential waters in the Granite State, having traveled to New Hampshire previously in August. He also planned to visit in October, before having to cancel amidst the outbreak of Ebola in Texas.
But this trip will be significant because it will be the first following the midterm election, marking an early start to the 2016 presidential election cycle.
Perry, who staged a famously fraught and brief presidential campaign in 2012, has been forthright about weighing a second bid for president in 2016, and has suggested he will make a decision by the end of the year.
