Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Tuesday that his state party’s vote this past weekend to censure him for being insufficiently conservative might make him more likely to seek another term in 2016.

“If there’s such a thing as motivation to more seriously consider it, it’s what just happened,” McCain told the AP.

McCain added that the censure vote “shows that, again, a very extremist element of the party has taken over the party apparatus.”