JEFFERSON CITY — Some rank-and-file Missouri Republicans say a looming fight over drawing new congressional maps is necessary because some Democratic states already have gerrymandered their congressional maps.

With the Missouri House set to gavel in Wednesday for the start of a special session called last week by Gov. Mike Kehoe , lawmakers surveyed by the Post-Dispatch said the state would not be facing the dilemma if blue states like Illinois and California had not already approved maps after the 2020 census that depress GOP representation in Congress.

“You think this is fun for us? They put us in this position to counter what they started,” Rep. Scott Cupps, R-Shell Knob, said Tuesday. “We didn’t ask for this fight, but here we are. As a state that has a majority that is very, very

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