This one shouldn’t be as hard.”Still, cross-party negotiations on trying to find a way out of the shutdown are happening. The new map splits the Kansas City-area seat currently held by Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II. In Kansas, state Republican leaders have distributed petitions to call for a special session for mid-decade redistricting and work around Democratic Gov. That meant congressional Democrats entered the shutdown a net 37 points underwater. Trump, too, received bad marks in the poll that would nonetheless be enviable for congressional Democrats.