JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Facing those seeking to oust him from office, Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver warned Missouri lawmakers on Thursday that a redistricting plan backed by President Donald Trump is reopening decades-old racial divisions in Kansas City.

Cleaver flew from the nation’s Capitol to Missouri’s statehouse in what he acknowledged was a likely quixotic attempt to stop a Republican plan that would dramatically reshape his Kansas City district to give the GOP a better shot at winning one more seat in next year’s election. Missouri’s Senate is expected to give final approval to the plan as soon as Friday.

The stakes are high, because Democrats need to gain just three seats to flip control of the U.S. House, and Trump is trying to stave off a historic trend in which the p

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