If you call up Republican officials in Iowa and New Hampshire, one potential 2024 presidential candidate’s name comes up again and again: Tom Cotton.

Politicians are expected to parade through the early states well ahead of 2024, and many Republicans are, even with the looming possibility that former president Donald Trump will run again. But few have been the fixture that is Cotton, the Arkansas senator, party officials say. He’s already attending county Christmas parties and local pastimes. Earlier this year, he zoomed into the New Hampshire GOP’s annual committee meeting to show his support for the state’s first-in-the-the-nation primary status, promising yet another visit.

“He has really been pounding the pavement,” New Hampshire committee member Juliana Bergeron told BuzzFeed News in a phone interview. “And honestly, I joked that ‘I was beginning to think he lived here.’ But he doesn’t.”

Iowa state party chair Jeff Kaufmann told BuzzFeed News, “Tom Cotton not only has been to the state multiple times, he’s very strategic in where he’s going. I mean, he’s made a point to appear on the Missouri River. He’s made a point to appear on the Mississippi. He’s made a point to go to Northern Iowa.”