Republican opportunity: Rick Brattin won the Republican nomination in Missouri’s 5th Congressional District on August 4, 2026, and will face Democrat Emanuel Cleaver in November. The Supreme Court of Missouri upheld the state’s congressional redistricting map, transforming the district from a D+23 safe Democratic seat into an R+17 safe Republican district. President Trump would have carried the new district by 18 percentage points in 2024, making it one of Republicans’…