Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren will make her first trip to Iowa as a potential 2020 presidential candidate just days after formally launching a committee to explore a White House bid.

The Democrat will be in Iowa the first weekend in January, holding events in Council Bluffs, Sioux City, Storm Lake and Des Moines, a spokeswoman for Warren's exploratory committee confirmed.

Iowa is set to kick off the presidential nominating process with its first-in-the-nation caucuses scheduled for Feb. 3, 2020.

Warren is one of the few possible Democratic contenders who has not visited the state in recent months, but she is one of the first high-profile candidates to formalize her 2020 efforts with an exploratory committee.

Former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro also has formed an exploratory committee. California entrepreneur Andrew Yang and U.S. Rep. John Delaney, of Maryland, have already launched their campaigns and have frequently visited Iowa voters.

Warren, who has been personally calling Iowa Democrats, is relatively popular in the state.

According to a Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa Poll released last month, 65 percent of likely Democratic caucusgoers in Iowa view her favorably, and 20 percent view her unfavorably.

In a head-to-head test of 20 possible presidential candidates, 8 percent say Warren is their first choice for president. The senator comes in fourth, behind former vice president Joe Biden (32 percent), U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont (19 percent) and outgoing Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke (11 percent).

Warren, a leader of her party's liberal wing, was first was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012. She has been on Democrats’ presidential radar for years; ahead of the 2016 cycle, a small group of Iowa Democrats were active in trying to recruit her to run for president along with the group MoveOn.org.

She gained national attention for her criticism of Wall Street and the banking industry following the 2008 financial collapse. The former law professor proposed and helped establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.