The Missouri legislature is advancing new Congress cards in the middle of Trump’s redistribution thrust
The Republicans of the Maison du Missouri advanced a new Congress map proposedPart of a mid -December rediscovery thrust launched by President Trump to keep – and possibly develop – the thin majority of the GOP razor in the American house.
The proposed cards aim to make the delegation of the Missouri seven Republicans Congress and a Democrat, a change compared to its current delegation made up of six Republicans and two Democrats. The map breaks the 5th Congress district, currently held by the Democratic representative Emmanuel Cleaver, making him more conservative.
The Missouri is the third state to consider redrawing its cards from the congress. Texas Republicans pass Their redistribution effort last month, moving five democratic districts to the Republicans. And the Democrats of California responded by adopting their own redistribution plan which would make five seats held by the GOP more favorable to the Democrats, although the Californian plan must still be approved by voters later this year.
The measure adopted the state house of Missouri 90-65, with several Republicans voting against him. He now goes to the State Senate, where the Republicans have a majority.
Trump applauded the Missouri legislators in an article on Truth Social, calling the proposed card “much fairer and improved”.
The president said that the card “will give the wonderful people of the Missouri the possibility of electing an additional Maga Republican during the mid-term elections of 2026”.
The representative of the State of Missouri Gop, Dirk Deaton, said while supporting the bill: “I also appreciate the management of President Trump. I appreciate all those who have spoken in favor, dating back to 2022 and over the years, of a Congress card which will better represent Missouri in Washington, DC”
The Kansas City district of Cleaver has long been a target for Republicans, because their number has increased so much in the Missouri that Democrats do not hold any elected function on the scale of the state. But state legislators left it in place during the redistribution of 2021 and rather divided Columbia, one of the other democratic bastions of the State, in two districts, according to the professor of the University of Missouri, Peverill Squire.
The cards are intended to press another seat for the Republicans, but as Squire noted, “none of this comes at no cost”. Rediscussing in mid-December uses data from several years at this stage, and things could have changed along the margins where the districts are redesigned, which made far that the result will be what the Republicans want. In addition, the legislator is also in the process of debating a voting measure in this special session, the result of which could be affected by the feeling of redistribution.
In addition, the new card will probably be challenged in court, as is similar efforts to Texas and California.
“There is a lot of risks for the Republicans, and the only thing when they are held to win is perhaps one more house seat,” said Squire.
Kehoe announced last month that it would be Call a special session To approach the redistribution, the last state in thrust started this summer in Texas. In mid-July, Mr. Trump and the president of the Mike Johnson room asked the Texas Republicans to take a look at their Congress Card for Rediscuss. Trump said he thought that in the margin of victory in Texas, he “entitled” to five other republican seats. Texas currently has 25 Republicans and 13 Democrats in its delegation.
Congress districts are normally installed once every 10 years, after the census shows population changes. Some states, such as Missouri and Texas, only require state legislature and the governor to change the districts, but Others have more complicated paths For changes to the congress card, such as independent commissions or oblige voters to give final approval.
How do democrats react?
In response to these redistribution efforts, the National Democratic Committee mobilizes support for State Democrats to try to attract national attention to Missouri, the last epicenter of Mr. Trump’s push to restart the congress districts.
The DNC strives to recruit the Missourians to submit public comments during the audience process and attend a rally on Wednesday in front of the Missouri State Capitol building to denounce the redistribution efforts. The democratic representative of Ohio House, Dani Issacsohn, and the representative of the State Desiree Tims will be present, since Trump warned that the Redecoupage Battle could go to the state of Buckeye afterwards.
The president of the DNC, Ken Martin, referred to this last battle of redistribution in an attempt to silence the dissatisfied voters.
“Republicans know they are in trouble,” Ken Martin told CBS News in a statement. “Donald Trump and his party have ripped out health care from workers’ families and increased everyday products in a selfish plot to make the richest ultra-rich.”
What happened with the redistribution of Texas and California?
The Republican Governor of Texas Greg Abbott called a special 30 -day session To resolve rediscovery and a number of other subjects. Two weeks in the special session, Democrats left the state To refuse Republicans a quorum – an option not available in Missouri, where only a simple majority is necessary for a quorum. They missed the stopwatch during the special session, but they finally returned after Abbott called anotherand the The measurement has easily succeeded.
But they attracted enough national attention for the Democratic Governor to California Gavin Newsom announced that he would redraw The districts of the congress of its state to collect up to five seats for the Democrats, although California requires that the new districts be approved by the voters. Newsom pushed a voting measure through the legislature led by the Democrats, and it easily.
The cards of Texas and California are disputed in court.
