Texas Gov. Rick Perry was scheduled to make a round of phone calls on Tuesday afternoon to a group of prominent Iowa Republican donors who have spent the past several months trying to persuade New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to enter the presidential race.

The phone conversations with Perry come as Christie remains unlikely to reconsider his often colorfully stated assertion that he has neither the desire nor the readiness to make a White House run – despite pleas from a wide swath of influential Republicans to change his mind.

Unless Christie reverses his posture dramatically in the coming days, at least one of the Iowa heavy hitters who made a late-May trek to the New Jersey governor’s mansion to try to woo him appears inclined to offer his allegiances to the Texan.