The Texan with the slight Southern drawl who has called dozens of top Iowa Republican activists in the past few weeks sounds more and more like he’s about to run for president.

I’m getting more and more comfortable every day that this is what I’ve been called to do

I think he’s more talking about feedback from “top Iowa Republican activists”

as well as

But his wife, Anita, and hundreds of people nationwide say they want him to run, he said.