Missouri lawmakers return to Jefferson City on Wednesday to consider a new plan to redraw congressional district map lines ahead of next year’s midterm elections, the latest in a series of Republican-led states to accede to President Trump’s demands for political advantage.
Gov. Mike Kehoe (R), under pressure from the White House to redraw map lines, has proposed what he calls a more compact and contiguous map than the existing lines. Republicans today hold seven of the Show Me State’s nine seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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