JEFFERSON CITY — Amid accusations of racism and sit-ins, Republicans in the Missouri House are set to vote Monday on President Donald Trump’s controversial plan to transform one of the state’s safe Democratic congressional districts into a GOP-leaning stronghold.

Although Democrats in the minority have opened their parliamentary tool kit to try to stop the Trump-backed juggernaut, names already are being floated in both parties as potential candidates for the reconfigured 5th Congressional District , which would run from downtown Kansas City to mid-Missouri.

Possible Republican candidates include state Sen. Kurtis Gregory, a farmer from Marshall who is a former captain of the University of Missouri football team. Katie Ashcroft of Jefferson City, the wife of the former secretary of sta

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