JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee will be campaigning in Missouri.

Huckabee is to hold a news conference at noon Tuesday in Jefferson City at the headquarters of the Associated Industries of Missouri. Then he's scheduled to tour Analytical Bio-Chemistry Laboratories at 1:30 p.m. in Columbia.

Huckabee is scheduled to wrap up the day in St. Louis, where he is to hold a fundraiser and an election-night watch party to monitor the Florida primaries.

The president of Associated Industries of Missouri says Huckabee's presence there does not mean the business group is endorsing him. Gary Marble says anyone is welcome to use the group's conference center.