Missouri governor signs new congressional redistricting map backed by Trump

Another victory for the president Donald Trump In the high -betting political war on the reputation of the congress between Republicans and Democrats.

On Sunday, GOP Gov from Missouri. Mike Kehoe first signed Missouri, a new congress map that may give an additional seat to the Republicans in the US House of Representatives before the next year’s midterm exams.

Missouri was accepted as a significant varying state that has changed to the right in the last decade, the last war area in the re -distribution show after the passage of new maps in GOP -dominated Texas and a reshaping by the democrats in the heavy blue California.

“I was proud to officially sign the law today before Missouri’s 2026 midterm exam,” Kehoe said in a statement. He said. “We believe that this map represents the best Missouryans, and I appreciate the support and efforts of the state lawmakers, our congress committee and President Trump to bring this map to the table.”

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After a passage in the legislative parliament, Trump called the new map “fantastic” on a social media, and “will help send an additional maga republican to the congress in the 2026 midterm elections,” he said.

The new map has long been aiming at the Kansas City region region of Democratic Representative Emanuel Cleaver by shifting to the east, including rural -right voters. The new map would probably turn Cleaver’s seat and give Republicans the advantage of 7-1 in the house delegation of the state.

Cleaver promised to take legal action if the new map was signed by the governor.

Cleaver testified in front of a Missouri Senate Committee at the beginning of this month, “If you fight all of us for a long time, I want to warn you that the only thing you will stay is ashes.” He said.

Democratic US Representative Emanuel Cleaver is waiting to speak against a congress redistribution plan proposed at a state Senate hearing in Mo on Friday, September 11, 2025. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)

And pointing to the last public opinion poll, he described the redistribution plan as “extremely popular”.

Missouri House minority leader Ashley Aune accused Republicans of forcing them to “equip our maps and eliminate our representation in Congress”.

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Kehoe’s announcement undertaken a special session, Cumhuriyet Gov. Greg Abbott Texas signed a red distribution bill in the state legislative body, which aims to create up to five right -leaning congress zones at the expense of existing democratic controlled seats in the red state.

Texas Republican Gov. When Greg Abbott was interviewed by Fox News Digital, he recently signed a bill that has recently redefined the congress regions of Lone Star State. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

The efforts in Missouri and Texas are part of the effort to collect the majority of the razor thin house to maintain the control of the room when the GOP is traditionally faced with political winds and in the 2026 midterm exams that lost seats.

Trump and his political team aim to prevent what happened in the White House, where the democrats recovered the majority of the parliament in the 2018 midterm elections.

The democrats are fighting against the rare, but unheard of decade.

In November, the state deputies in the state Mavi California approved a special voting proposal to obtain voter approval in order to return the state’s non -partisan reputation commission to the democratic dominant legislature.

Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom of California speaks during August 14, 2025 during a congress redistribution event in Los Angeles. (AP)

The effort in California, which aims to create five democratic -oriented congress zones and to resist the change in Texas, is pioneering by the two -term gov. Gavin NewsomProbably seen as a 2028 Democratic President contestant.

When the democrats are currently needed a turntable in the next year’s midterm exams to recover the majority of the democrats, the Republicans in Indiana, South Carolina, Florida, Kansas and Nebraska make their own gop -friendly reshaping plans before the 2026 elections. And the right -leaning Ohio is under the order of the court to make new maps in front of midterm exams.

The Democrats look at New York, Illinois and Maryland, hoping to create more left -handed congress seats.

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The place where the governors are in Illinois and Maryland JB Pritzker Wes Moore is discussing its redditation, the Democrats hopes to buy three more left -handed seats.

And the Democrats can take a place in the Republican Utah, where a judge, in which a judge has recently decided that deputies had ignored a commission approved to prevent Partizan Gerrymantering four years ago, to draw new maps.