Quinton Lucas said the plan to split Kansas City could make the Republican-held 4th and 6th districts more competitive. The mayor, who is term-limited from running for reelection, said he may try to flip U.S. Rep. Mark Alford’s 4th District seat.

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said he may run to represent Missouri in the U.S. House if Republicans redraw the state’s congressional map.

Missouri lawmakers have already passed a new congressional map out of committee that targets Democrat Emanuel Cleaver’s 5th District U.S. House seat and carves the Kansas City metro into three different districts.

The state legislature, which has a Republican supermajority in both chambers, is expected to pass the changes. Missouri has eight U.S. House representatives — only two of them, in Kansas City

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