On Friday, MSNBC host Katy Tur appeared to believe that the Republicans controlled the U.S. Senate because of gerrymandering, or the lack thereof, even though gerrymandering has nothing to do with how Senators are elected.

“In case you missed it, majority doesn’t always rule in this country,” Tur Said. “Forty-eight senators voted to remove the President from office. Fifty-two voted to acquit. But the 48 actually represent 12 million more voters than the senators who decided to keep Donald Trump in the White House.”

“We’re not arguing that a simple majority of the population should decide whether to remove an impeached president from office,” Tur continued. “That is not in the Constitution. But it does serve to highlight a broad trend in our politics, the outsized influence of rural voters over those concentrated in the cities and suburbs.”

Tur then brought on Washington Post columnist Philip Bump and asked him, “So what’s the resolution to that? Is gerrymandering something that would help improve the situation? How does that sort of divide promote consensus in the Senate or even in the House?”

“Well, I mean, the only resolution – gerrymandering is not going to do anything because in the Senate, we’re talking about states, right?” Bump responded. “You can’t gerrymander states. The only solution is for Democrats to appeal to voters in those states, right?”

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.@KatyTurNBC worries about "gerrymandering" helping Republicans get elected to the SENATE, Washington Post's @pbump has to awkwardly correct her pic.twitter.com/Jyr37B9O8y — Kyle Drennen (@kjdrennen) February 7, 2020

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