Republicans Tuesday brought their extraordinary redistricting push to Missouri as President Donald Trump seeks to hold onto control of Congress by using gerrymandered maps to squeeze more GOP seats out of red states ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

GOP lawmakers passed a plan to chop up Kansas City’s congressional district to oust incumbent Democratic Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver, the city’s first Black mayor, which would likely create a 7-1 state delegation, up from the current 6-2 edge in the Show Me State.

Kansas City residents people have denounced the new Republican map, which got the green light Monday and was expected to win final approval later Tuesday.

“Kansas City does not want to be divided. We deserve representation and a voice,” Kristen Ellis Johnson, an attorney from

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