Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. Ashcroft is Missouri’s secretary of state and the son of John Ashcroft, the former Missouri governor, U.S. senator and attorney general under President George W. Bush. Decision notes Bush’s 1st Congressional District is divided between St. Louis City and part of St. Louis County, both of which have heavily favored …
— Republicans in the Missouri Senate negotiated behind closed doors for hours Wednesday over how to divvy up the state’s eight congressional districts based on the latest census data. Senate Republicans are divided between a plan that could continue Missouri’s current political split in the U.S. House and a more aggressive proposal that could potentially give the GOP a shot …
