Trump-backed congressional map passes Senate in crucial Midwestern state: 'Commonsense values'
President Donald Trump won another victory in the high -risk political war between Republicans and Democrats in the Congress redistribution.
Missouri State Senate, which held a meeting at a special legislative session on Friday, passed a new congress map that may give an additional seat to the Republicans with 21-11 votes in the US House of Representatives before next year. Midterm elections.
Missouri, a one -time swing state that has changed to the right over the past decade, is the last war area in the demonstration of congress red distribution after the passage of new maps in Texas, which is GOP sovereignty, and a thrust by the democrats in the heavy blue California.
With the transition of the red distribution bill in the Missouri House of Representatives at the beginning of the week, the measure is now going to the desk of the Republican Mike Kehoe.
Trump -supported redistimation transforms the Push Midwestern province into the next political warfare
“Missouri’s conservative, common sense values should really be represented at all levels of the government, and Missouri’s first map only offers it.”
After passing the red distribution bill, the governor reiterated that the new maps would enable “the values of the Missouryans clearly and effectively”.
The new map proposed by Kehoe has long been aiming at the Kansas City region of the 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 on Thursday, a Missouri Senate Committee on Thursday, said in a statement on Thursday, Cleaver said, “If you fight the fire with enough fire, the only thing you will stay is ashes,” he said.
And pointing to the last public opinion poll, he described the redistribution plan as “extremely popular”.
However, Trump said in a new social media mission that Missouri voters would have a tremendous opportunity to choose an additional maga in the 2026 midterm elections “.
Missouri democrats organized a seating last weekend and refused to leave the room to protest the Republic -backed map. The Democrats held another rally in Missouri Capitol on Wednesday.
Missouri State House Minority leader Ashley Aune accused Republicans of “equipping our maps and forcing them to eliminate our representation in Congress”.
Former Representative of the Missouri Democratic Party President Russian Carnahan warned that Republicans had political consequences that pushed to reorganize.
“They choose to bend to Washington, they want to do some things that I think will confuse the anger of Missouri voters, and they are about to see what Missouri voters look like,” Carnahan told Fox News Digital.
However, while the Republicans controlled both rooms in the Missouri legislature, the Democrats did not have good options to prevent the passage of the new map.
The announcement of the special session of Kehoe, Cumhuriyet Gov from Texas. Hours after Greg Abbott’s law, the state legislative body, currently the democratic controlled seats in the reliable red state of the right -leaning congress zone aimed at creating the right -leaning zone was passed.
ABBOTT cleanses the last redistment obstacle while passing the new Trump approved map of the Texas Senate
The efforts in Missouri and Texas are part of the effort to collect the majority of the house from the razor to protect 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.
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 needing a turntable in the next year’s midterm exams to regain the majority of the house, Indiana, South Carolina and Florida are united 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.
Govs 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 has recently decided that deputies have ignored an independent commission that was approved to prevent Partizan Gerrymandering four years ago.
