JEFFERSON CITY • While no one is predicting a Democratic wave in the Missouri Legislature on Election Day next week, Republicans are nervous about perhaps a dozen districts situated primarily in the state’s metropolitan areas.

Strategists on both sides say the battleground is in the suburbs, where views on President Donald Trump’s administration and other GOP priorities are more mixed than in most outstate areas.

Republicans, having pieced together a supermajority in the Legislature over the last decade, have a wide map to defend. But they appear to have the money to do so.

As of Sept. 30, the House Republican Campaign Committee had raised $3.1 million compared to the House Democrats’ $379,146. This David-versus-Goliath dilemma notwithstanding, a select group of Democratic recruits has raised enough money and knocked on enough doors to keep Republicans on their toes.

“It’s a tough environment” for Republicans, said incoming House Speaker Elijah Haahr, R-Springfield, who suggested voters in suburban St. Louis and Kansas City — and even around Columbia and Springfield — are primed to punish Trump’s party.