Missouri governor calls special redistricting session amid Trump pressure

Source: CNN Politics

Updated Aug 29, 2025, 6:24 PM ET
PUBLISHED Aug 29, 2025, 6:21 PM ET


Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe on Friday announced a special session to draw new congressional maps – becoming the latest governor of a Republican-run state to accede to President Donald Trump’ s demands to undertake mid-decade redistricting. Kehoe ordered lawmakers to return to the state capitol next week to take up the map-drawing, along with legislation aimed at weakening the state’s citizen initiative process.

The proposed map unveiled by Kehoe takes aim at long-serving Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s Kansas City-area district and could put Republicans on track to win seven out of the state’s eight US House seats in next year’s midterm elections.

Cleaver, in his 11th term, has previously vowed to take legal action to block any map that targets his seat. In a statement, Kehoe said the measures before lawmakers will “ensure our districts and Constitution truly put Missouri values first.”

On Friday, Trump hailed Kehoe’s move in a social media post, saying the session would yield a “new, much fairer, and much improved, Congressional Map, that will give the incredible people of Missouri the tremendous opportunity to elect an additional MAGA Republican” next year.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/politics/missouri-redistricting-special-session-cleaver

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MO only has 2 Democrats so they are aiming at one.

But see, this is what they will do and we have some states with similar, with just "few" (R)s and the rest (D)s. MD has just 1 (R) (who I am sure people would love to get rid of ), and IL has 3.