More than one year before Louisiana GOP voters decide who should be their senator, John Fleming feels good about his prospects of beating out Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), thanks in part to new voting rules.

The Louisiana State Treasurer, who announced a Senate run in December, hopes that Cassidy’s vulnerability among a reinvigorated MAGA base will propel him to be the state’s next senator. A former House lawmaker, Fleming was also a founding member of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus.