Donald Trump may be thinking about running for president in 2016 with $1 million spent on research as evidence, CNN reported.

A spokesman for Trump told CNN Monday that the real estate mogul has been invited to more than a dozen conservative and Republican Party events. He also included that the million dollars spent in 2011 on campaign research should not be ignored.

According to CNN, the research done in 2011 was for the 2012 election in which Trump was reportedly mulling running against President Barack Obama when he was up from re-election.

Michael Cohen, Trump's executive vice president and special counsel, told CNN that the research was trying to determine what Trump had to do to be on each state's ballot and how he could win. Cohen said the research should remain relevant because the players in the upcoming 2016 election are the same as the ones in this past one.

Trump spoke in front of what is being called a record crowd at the Oakland County, Michigan Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner.

"Everybody tells me, 'Please run for president. Please run for president.' I would be much happier if a great and competent person came along," Trump told attendees, according to local media. "I'm a Republican, but before anything, I love this country. I would love to see somebody come in who is going to be great."

Even though Trump did not commit to saying he would give a presidential campaign a serious shot, Cohen said the research has already done, which is currently sitting on a bookshelf, should be an indicator of the reality TV star's plans.

"The electoral research was commissioned. We did not spend $1 million on this research for it just to sit on my bookshelf," Cohen told the New York Post.

If Trump were to run for president, he would have to give up control of his company to his children or to a trust.

According to CNN, Trump is set to address social conservatives at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's "Road to Majority" conference in Washington D.C next month.