JEFFERSON, Missouri – Missouri Republican-led homes rejected democratic opposition Tuesday and passed a president-supported plan Donald Trump To repaint the state’s congressional district so that Republicans can win an additional seat in the divided conference hall.
The rare midterm re-division plan is now heading to the state Senate to strengthen the national prospects of Republicans in next year’s U.S. House elections, with Democrats only need to get three seats to control. By reshaping the Democratic Party Kansas City Regional Republicans can win seven of Missouri’s eight congressional seats.
Missouri’s efforts followed similar moves in Republican-led Texas and opposition in Democrat-led California, which still requires voter approval. Other states, including Republican-led Indiana and Florida, as well as Democrat-led Maryland and New York, can follow their own modifications, a nationwide reallocation battle.
After the 2020 census, the U.S. House of Representatives has redrawed nationwide to account for the changes in population. The re-division of partisan advantages is currently being promoted, a process known as Gerrymandering.
“It’s cheating,” said state Rep. Yoronda Henderson, one of many Democrats condemning the measure. “Just the president trump card Say, let’s jump. ”
trump card Want to retain a majority in Congress to raise his agenda. But historically, the opposition to the presidential party has seated in the midterm elections, and the Democrats have Trump’s In the first semester, then continue to implode him.
Photo: Missouri Republicans advance ace-backed plan to remake the U.S. House area
Missouri lawmakers met at two special meetings held by Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe.
The House also passed a measure Tuesday that if approved by Senate and statewide voters would make it harder for citizen-led initiatives to amend the state constitution, requiring a majority vote in each congressional district rather than a simple statewide majority. This comes after Missouri’s initiative process won the voter approval of abortion rights, legalization of marijuana and Medicaid expansion in recent years.
In a statement after the House vote, Keeho thanked Republicans for “ensure that Missourian values are clearly and effectively represented.”
Republicans already hold six of the eight House seats in Missouri, with Democrats representing the district Kansas City and St. Louis.
Republican plans to target Kansas City The area occupied by Democratic U.S. Emanuel Cleaver extends it eastward to the heavy Republican rural areas and reduces the number of black and minority voters in the area. Other parts Kansas City Will be added to two major rural areas represented by Republicans.
Cleaver turned 81 in October and is a Methodist pastor Kansas City The first black mayor from 1991 to 1999 and won the U.S. House election in 2004. He asserted that Republicans were creating an atmosphere of “intimidation” and “divisation” and promised to challenge the new map in court.
“Frankly, this is one of those moments,” Clever said in a recent interview with the Associated Press.
Missouri House Minority Leader Ashley Aune, Democrat Kansas Citycondemning the Republican plan as “Gillimander beyond the party.”
“Under these new maps, they essentially erased Emanuel Chekon,” Aune said.
If the revised district also passes the Senate, Aune said she expects the petition for the initiative to try to force a public referendum. This may delay the changes that take effect and may overturn them.
Although it is the main one Kansas City Republican lawmakers said the state will expand significantly under the revised map, and the state’s congressional will generally be more compact and competitive. Kehoe defended the revised map as a means to amplify the voice of conservatives in Congress.
It’s “a congressional map that will better represent Missouri in Washington, D.C.,” said Republican state Rep. Dirk Deaton.
Missouri homes passed the revised area with a 90-65 vote. Thirteen Republicans, including suburban House Speaker Jon Patterson Kansas Cityvote with Democrats against the revised map. But during the two-day debate, only one couple objected.
“It is wrong to use our original political power to tilt the movement environment to our side regardless of partisanship,” said Republican State Rep. Bryant Wolfin.
Before the House vote, three Democratic state members sat in the House room for several days and nights to protest the special session, with most members absent. Former Vice President Kamala Harris ordered the delivery of pizza and chicken wings to them to show.
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Missouri State University has sued for seeking to invalidate the special session. The state lawsuit asserts that there is no extraordinary situation to justify the meeting and that the state constitution prohibits redivision of the decisions that do not have new census data or invalidate the current district.
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway took office on Monday, saying she doesn’t think there is any constitutional ban on the mid-term rezoning.
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Associated Press writer Heather Hollingsworth by Kansas CityMissouri.
