Emanuel Cleaver: “I don't understand it.”

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.

Right here in the middle of the country in the sometimes-cold Midwest, where people became so upset that they did what one can do only in a democracy, and they went out and organized.

The people fought back and won.

If I have to serve the people who live just outside of Columbia and Jefferson City, then I’ll do that.