The redistribution thrust sustained by Trump transforms the state of the midwest into the following battlefield

Political battles with high challenges between the Republicans and the Democrats for the redistribution of the Congress before the mid-term elections next year moved to a new battlefield this week.

A special session of the Missouri legislature to redesign the districts of the solidly red state congress and give control of the GOP of an additional chamber seat was launched Wednesday with public hearings scheduled for Thursday.

“Conservative and common sense values ​​of Missouri should be really represented at all levels of government, and the first Missouri card delivers exactly this,” said Republican governor Mike Kehoe, when he announced the special session and unveiled a proposed card.

The victory of the main republicans of redistribution in this key state

Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe goes to the crowd after being sworn as 58th state governor in Jefferson City. Kehoe called a special session to redesign the maps of the State Congress. (Emily Curiel / Kansas City Star / Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Kehoe’s move occurred a few hours after the governor of the GOP, Greg Abbott of Texas, signed on Friday a redistribution bill adopted by the super republican majority of the state legislature which aims to create up to five districts of the Congress on the right at the expense of the seats currently controlled by Democrats in the reliable red state.

The republican thrust in Texas, which came at the request of President Donald Trump, is part of a wide effort of the GOP across the country to fill their majority at the house thinly like the razor to keep control of the mid-term chamber of 2026, when the power party traditionally faces adoption needles and seats.

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Trump, in an article on social networks, argued that the Missouri voters will have “the formidable opportunity to elect an additional Maga Republican in the mid-term elections of 2026”.

Trump and his political team aim to prevent what happened during his first mandate in the White House when the Democrats returned to seize the majority of the Chamber in the 2018 mid-term elections.

Republican Governor Greg Abbott of Texas, seen interviewed by Fox News Digital, signed a bill on Friday which redesigns the districts of the Lone State of the Congress. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

Democrats fight against the rare, but not unknown to the redistribution of mid-December.

State legislators in strongly blue California last week approved a special proposal for voting in November to obtain the approval of the voters to temporarily divert the non -partisan red -cutting commission of the State and refer the power to draw the Congress maps to the legislature dominated by the Democrats.

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The effort in California, which aims to create five other districts of the Democratic Congress and to counter the change in Texas, is led by the governor with two mandates Gavin Newsom, who is considered a probable democratic concurrent in 2028.

California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom is speaking during a Congress redistribution event on August 14, 2025 in Los Angeles. (AP photo / Rich Pedroncelli)

In Missouri, the new map proposed by Kehoe targets the long -standing Democratic representative Emanuel Cleaver the regional district of Kansas City by moving it east to include rural right voters.

If it is adopted by the legislature controlled by the GOP, the new card would probably overthrow the siege of Cleaver and give the Republicans an advantage of 7-1 in the delegation of the American Chamber of the State.

The Special Session of the Missouri Legislative Assembly will also discuss another high -level republican priority – a proposed constitutional amendment, which makes it more difficult to approve citizens’ election initiatives. The rights of abortion and the legalization amendments of marijuana, opposed by many Republican State leaders, have passed in recent years.

The chief of the Missouri State House minorities, Ashley Aune, accused on Monday that Kehoe and the Republican State legislators push to “rig our cards and eliminate our representation in the Congress”.

Missouri house file photo. A legislative session of the special state begins Wednesday as part of a republican thrust to redraw the districts of the State Congress. (AP photo / David A. Lieb)

Former representative Russ Carnahan, president of the Missouri democrats, warned that there were political consequences for the Republicans who push towards redistribution.

“They choose to bow before Washington’s requests to do certain things that, I think, will stir the anger of Missouri voters, and they are about to see what the voters of the annoyed Missouri look like,” Carnahan told Fox News Digital.

But Missouri State House Democrats have limited options to prevent the legislature from adopting the new card. Unlike Texas, where representatives of the Democratic State fled the State for two weeks to delay the adoption of the redistribution, a similar decision of the Missouri Democrats would not prevent a quorum necessary to lead business.

And any obstacle of the Democrats of the Senate of the State of the Missouri would probably be quickly closed by the majority Republicans.

Cleaver, whose siege is threatened, has promised to take legal action if the new card is signed by the governor.

Democrats currently needing a three-seater halfway up next year to win back the majority of the room, Missouri and Texas are far from being the only states where Trump and his political allies urge Republicans to rewrite cards to create more congress districts.

The best legislators of the Republican State of Indiana, which, similar to Missouri, is a former battle which is now red, visited the White House last week to discuss the redistribution.

The Republicans of Southern Carolina under the control of the GOP and Florida also reflect on the redistribution before the 2026 elections. And the Ohio on the right is under the order of the court to draw new cards before mid-term.

The Democrats, as they repel, turn to New York, Illinois and Maryland in the hope of creating more seats in the left congress.

But they have less attractive options than the Republicans.

They control fewer states than the GOP and face constitutional limitations or non -partisan redistribution commissions, which is the case in New York.

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In Illinois and Maryland, where Govs. JB Pritzker and Wes Moore discuss the redistribution, the Democrats hope to take up to three other left seats.

And they could take a seat in right -wing Utah, where a judge recently ordered the GOP controlled legislature to draw new cards after deciding that the legislators four years ago have ignored an independent commission approved by voters to prevent partisan gerrymandering.

Fox News Digital contacted Kehoe’s office to request an interview but did not immediately hear.