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GOP's 'dizzying' scheme to rig red state's maps backfires as voters left fuming: report

Missouri Republicans thought a gerrymandered congressional map was a lock. After a weeks-long legal fiasco, Democratic candidate Fred Wellman, who called the effort "monumentally dumb," says the party is left with old districts and an angry electorate, according to a Guardian report. Following Trump's push for mid-decade redistricting, Gov. Mike Kehoe…

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