Emanuel Cleaver: “Thank you Donald Payne, my colleague, my teacher, and my friend.”

For more than a year, state officials have spent precious time, energy, and resources on an effort to silence the voices of Missouri voters and steal a congressional seat.

More than 305,000 Missourians demanded a say in who will represent them in the halls of Congress. Despite the cynical and deeply shameful attempt to silence many of our neighbors, the people fought back and won. This reaffirms that the…

I think my reelection prospects shot up significantly.

We're going to run, and we're going to run hard, no matter where we are.