Former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown continued to tease a return to politics over the weekend, and he now says he’s doing the early legwork required before deciding whether to hang up his guitar and seek another senate term.

Brown, who served as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa during President-elect Donald Trump’s first administration, said that he’s been eyeing New Hampshire’s entirely Democratic delegation and wondering if he can better represent the citizens of his native Granite State.

“The thing that really ticks me off is how they’ve basically covered up for Joe Biden for the last four years, what they’ve done or not done on the border, what they’ve done and not done in inflation, and they’re just completely out of touch with what we want here in New Hampshire. And the more I think about it, I think we can do better,” Brown told Fox News.

In an interview he shared to his social media accounts over the weekend, Brown said he’s begun performing the “due diligence” required before he can officially launch a 2026 campaign against three-term incumbent U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.

Brown previously served in both the Massachusetts House and the State Senate, before winning the seat vacated by former U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy upon his death in 2009. He lost his bid to keep his job to U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2012.

Brown sought to represent the Granite State in the upper chamber of Congress in 2014, but lost that race to Shaheen, due in part to the “outsider” narrative surrounding his candidacy and joining the race late in the election cycle.

That’s “old news” and won’t be the case this time around, he said.

Since leaving his diplomatic post Brown has spent his time competing in regional triathlons, performing as guitarist and leading man in the band Scott Brown and the Diplomats, and helping with local campaigns. While he represented the Bay State in the past, Brown was born in New Hampshire and currently resides in Rye. People have gotten used to seeing him around the state over the last ten years, he said.

“We’ve had a house here for over three decades, and we’ve been fully engaged full time here for over a decade,” he said.

This cycle, he’s got plenty of time to get a ground game running, he said, and in recent weeks he’s been meeting with GOP operatives in New Hampshire. Granite State voters, he said, should expect to see him out and about in coming months as he tests the political waters.

“You’ll be seeing me a lot around — whether it’s parades, triathlons, my rock band — you know, meeting and getting out and really learning,” he said.