The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. Leading Off ● MT Redistricting: Montana's bipartisan redistricting commission adopted a final congressional map on Friday, identical to the one it passed a week earlier. As before, the panel's independent tiebreaker sided with the commission's two Republican members to pick the GOP's plan, which yields a western 1st District that would have gone for Donald Trump by a 52-45 margin last year, according to Dave's Redistricting App, and a much redder 2nd District in the east that would have voted 62-35 for Trump. In most respects, the map resembles the one the state used 30 years ago, the last time it had two congressional districts—and that includes the numbering. Many people, including ourselves and some would-be candidates, had been referring to the new district as «the 2nd,» but in fact it's the 1st: Republican Rep. Matt Rosendale, who currently represents the state's lone at-large district, is sure to seek re-election in the 2nd, which includes his home in Great Falls. Read more