More than two weeks after it passed the Missouri Legislature in a chaotic session, Gov. Mike Kehoe has signed a new Congressional map into law.

“We believe this map best represents Missourians,” Kehoe said in a statement released Sunday after an event that was closed to the media. “Missourians are more alike than we are different, and our values, across both sides of the aisle, are closer to each other than those of the congressional representation of states like New York, California and Illinois.”

The map redraws Missouri’s eight congressional districts to where seven of them could be won by Republicans. The former congressional map contained six safe Republican seats and two safe Democrat seats.

The new map splits the former 5th Congressional District, which encompasses the Kansas C

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