The Missouri House has advanced a proposal to redraw the state’s eight congressional districts at the behest of President Donald Trump.

But because not enough Republicans voted to transform Congressman Emanuel Cleaver’s Kansas City-based district into a GOP-leaning seat, opponents of the move may have a short window to prevent the new map from ever going into effect – thanks to a rarely used mechanism to place newly passed laws up for a statewide vote.

The House voted 89-63 Monday night to adopt Rep. Dirk Deaton’s legislation, which would link a portion of Cleaver’s Kansas City-based district to a number of largely rural counties. It would also place other parts of the state’s largest city into the districts of Reps. Mark Alford and Sam Graves, put all of St. Charles County into Re

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