JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that Missouri may soon join GOP-backed efforts to redraw its congressional district boundaries, declaring on social media platform truth social, "Missouri is now IN."

Trump's post is widely interpreted as one urging for mid-decade congressional redistricting in Missouri, part of a broader national redistricting push led by Republicans that most prominently includes Texas.

The post reads: "The Great State of Missouri is now IN. I’m not surprised. It is a great State with fabulous people. I won it, all 3 times, in a landslide. We’re going to win the Midterms in Missouri again, bigger and better than ever before!"

Redistricting, the process of drawing the borders of districts for which a state’s elected officials are elec

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