The Louisiana man who went viral for his impassioned and incisive speech against a GOP plan to redraw the state’s congressional maps ahead of this year’s midterm election said he’s considering a run for public office.

Marshan Camese, who goes by Nola tha Progressive on TikTok, received widespread praise on social media after he called the MAGA party the “last breath of the Confederacy” during a meeting of the Louisiana state Senate’s committee on Senate and governmental affairs last Tuesday.

“I have no doubt in my mind that the map’s gonna pass. If y’all could give us less than zero seats, you would do it,” Camese said. “Y’all do this under the orders of somebody that said the Civil Rights Act was harmful to white people, that it caused reverse racism.”

Camese told HuffPost that he waited nearly 10 hours to speak at the meeting and just said what he “had on his mind at the time.” However, he said the senators weren’t very receptive to his comments.

“A coward never really likes to look at you when you’re telling them the truth,” Camese said. “And I definitely got that from them when I was speaking with them. They know how garbage they are as people, and I genuinely believe they all do. They all know they’re sucking up to somebody [President Donald Trump] who flirts with his own daughter.”

Camese repeatedly told HuffPost that he believes the members of the Republican Party are “traitors to the country” who “should all go to jail.”

“They’re ruining the country right now, and they know it,” Camese said. “That’s what’s really aggravating me.”

Republican lawmakers in Louisiana raced to redraw the state’s U.S. House maps in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision weakening Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Gov. Jeff Landry also suspended the state’s primary elections last month in order for the maps to be redrawn, despite the fact that roughly 45,000 ballots had already been cast in early voting.

On Thursday, Louisiana’s Republican leaders approved a proposed map that would maintain only one Democrat-majority district, stretching from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. The map struck down by the Supreme Court’s decision included two Democrat-majority districts.

The new map now awaits approval in the state’s House of Representatives, where, if passed, it will likely be signed into law by Landry.

Despite Trump and the Republican Party’s sprint to redraw the maps across the country to favor Republicans and eliminate many Black-majority districts, Camese said he believes the writing is already on the wall for the GOP.

“I think they’re gonna get destroyed,” Camese said. “Donald Trump will continue to fuck up and be the best advertisement to vote Democrat.”

“He just told everybody he don’t give a fuck about your finances while he sends your children to die over in Iran, just so they can come back to a more expensive country, a more nuclearized world, and a more hostile international relationship with everybody else around us. So, yeah, that’s what I think is going to happen. Like, Donald Trump is going to make sure the MAGA movement dies,” he continued.

Many people who commented on Camese’s viral speech suggested he should run for office. Camese said he hasn’t ruled out that possibility.

“I would like to do it. What I think is very unfortunate is, I just don’t trust a traditional Democratic platform for me to launch a campaign or even to learn about a campaign,” Camese said.

“I’m currently trying to get in touch with either Bernie Sanders or David Hogg,” he added. “I think I can trust either one of them in terms of a progressive political campaign. I think I can trust them more for the type of values that I want to push forward, because I’m positive once I get to more microphones and start talking, that they’re gonna do the same thing they did with Graham (Platner).”

Watch Camese’s full speech from last week’s meeting here:

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