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(CNN) Two of Florida's top Republicans on Thursday distanced themselves from President Donald Trump's false claim that Hurricane Maria did not kill nearly 3,000 people in Puerto Rico last year, despite an estimate accepted by the island's government. 
  
 Both Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who is running for Senate in the state, and former Rep. Ron DeSantis, who is running to succeed Scott, issued statements affirming their belief in the death count. Puerto Ricans are a key potential voting bloc in Florida's closely contested elections. Following the 2017 hurricane, thousands of Puerto Ricans were estimated to have moved to the state. 
  
 "I disagree with @POTUS," Scott tweeted. "An independent study said thousands were lost and Gov. Rosselló agreed." 
  
 I disagree with @POTUS-- an independent study said thousands were lost and Gov. Rosselló agreed. I've been to Puerto Rico 7 times & saw devastation firsthand. The loss of any life is tragic; the extent of lives lost as a result of Maria is heart wrenching. I'll continue to help PR — Rick Scott (@ScottforFlorida) September 13, 2018 
  
 He added: "I've been to Puerto Rico 7 times & saw devastation firsthand. The loss of any life is tragic; the extent of lives lost as a result of Maria is heart wrenching. I'll continue to help PR." 
  
 DeSantis' communications director echoed Scott's sentiment, telling reporters in a statement that the gubernatorial candidate "doesn't believe any loss of life has been inflated." 
  
 Read More ||||| Rick Santorum, the former Republican presidential candidate, blamed "the country of Puerto Rico" for its "woefully deficient" response to Hurricane Maria. To be clear, Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory. 
  
 It was recently revealed that nearly 3,000 people died from the hurricane and its aftermath — a number, which is comparable to the death toll in the 9/11 attacks. Santorum, who is now a political commentator for CNN, was speaking Tuesday with Anderson Cooper when he made the much-maligned comments. 
  
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 As the country prepares for Hurricane Florence to hit the Carolinas, the inadequate response to Maria by President Donald Trump's administration has been revisited, as well as the president's own statements, which have consistently downplayed the loss of American lives. 
  
 Even after a new death toll was revealed by university researchers – one that drastically differed from the government's official count of 64 – the president has not changed his tune. During a press conference in the Oval Office Tuesday, Trump described the administration's response to Hurricane Maria as "incredibly successful" and said it was "one of the best jobs that's ever been done." 
  
 Anderson Cooper asked Santorum if he believed that Trump should bear some responsibility for the neglect of Puerto Ricans and the devastating death toll on the island. "The federal response is an important component of it," Santorum replied. "But, as we all know, the primary responsibility — the people who are most responsible for that response — is not FEMA." 
  
 "FEMA is not a huge operation that can do all things," Santorum continued. "It is a thing that supplements state and local — in this case, the country of Puerto Rico, their response — and of course, that was woefully deficient." 
  
 Neither Cooper or his guests so much as flinched at the glaringly inaccurate statement. Santorum added that there were errors made on the part of FEMA and also by "the inability of the Puerto Rican government to respond." 
  
 "So yes, do they have blame? Absolutely, there's blame to be put on FEMA for not providing more help to an organization that needed more help," he said. "But to throw it all on the federal government? It's simply not fair, and it's a misreading of how emergency response actually happens." 
  
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 As MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle tweeted in response to Santorum's remarks, "Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States. Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens. You don't need a passport to fly to Puerto Rico from anywhere within the United States. If you wanna blame 'the country,' we're it." 
  
 But Santorum is not alone among Republicans. In Trump's Cabinet, Energy Secretary Rick Perry also referred to Puerto Rico as its own country in October during a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing and was quickly called out for it. 
  
 Many people on social media were equally as baffled by Santorum's framing of Puerto as its own country – especially that no one corrected him. ||||| The IT History Society (ITHS) is a world-wide group of over 500 members working together to assist in and promote the documentation, preservation, cataloging, and researching of Information Technology (IT) history. We offer a place where individuals, academicians, corporate archivists, curators of public institutions, and hobbyists alike can gather and share information and resources. This catalog of resource sites concerning IT history is the only one of its kind and is a valuable resource for IT historians and archivists alike. ||||| Tweet with a location 
  
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 Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis. speaks during his weekly news conference on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, in Washington. (Photo: AP) 
  
 WASHINGTON – House Speaker Paul Ryan disagreed Thursday with President Donald Trump's assertion that the death toll from last year's hurricane in Puerto Rico was inflated. 
  
 Ryan told reporters he had "no reason to dispute" the findings of a study commissioned by Puerto Rico's government that put its death toll at nearly 3,000 people. 
  
 "You couldn’t get to people for a long time on the island because roads were washed out, power was gone and the casualties mounted for a long time," Ryan said when asked about Trump's tweet. "So I have no reason to dispute those numbers. Those are just the facts of what happens when a horrible hurricane hits an isolated place like an island." 
  
 Trump had questioned the findings of a study released last month by George Washington University that examined the toll from Hurricane Maria. From September 2017 to February 2018, 2,975 people died, according to that report. 
  
 CLOSE President Donald Trump on Tuesday deemed the federal government's response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico a year ago “incredibly successful” even though a recent federal report found that nearly 3,000 people died. (Sept. 11) AP 
  
 "This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico," Trump wrote on Twitter. "If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico!" 
  
 But Ryan said, "Casualties don’t make a person look bad." 
  
 More: Puerto Rico: Trump loyalist Ron DeSantis rejects his claim that Democrats inflated Hurricane Maria death toll 
  
 Ryan didn't answer a question about whether Trump's claim disturbed him or whether Trump should apologize to the victims' families. He reiterated that there’s no reason to dispute the numbers. 
  
 “It’s a function of, this was a devastating storm that hit an isolated island," he said. "And that’s really no one’s fault. That is just what happened.” 
  
 Trump weighed in on Puerto Rico as his administration was bracing for Hurricane Florence, a dangerous Category 2 storm expected to soon blast the Carolinas with wind, rain and storm surge. 
  
 .....This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico. If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 13, 2018 
  
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President Trump thinks the latest estimate of about 3,000 dead from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico is a lie made up by his political opponents. But even some Republicans—especially those in Florida—are among those disagreeing with the president's assertion about the estimate from researchers at George Washington University. Some of the responses, per the Washington Post, CNN, and USA Today: Paul Ryan: The House speaker said he had "no reason to dispute" the death toll. "You couldn’t get to people for a long time on the island because roads were washed out, power was gone and the casualties mounted for a long time," Ryan said. "Those are just the facts of what happens when a horrible hurricane hits an isolated place like an island." He added that "casualties don't make a person look bad." Rick Scott: Florida's Republican governor tweeted that he disagreed with Trump. An "independent study said thousands were lost and Gov. (Ricardo) Rosselló agreed," wrote Scott, who is running for the Senate. "I've been to Puerto Rico 7 times & saw devastation firsthand." Rep. Ileana Ros Lehtinen: The Florida Republican had one of the harshest takes. “What kind of mind twists that statistic into ‘Oh, fake news is trying to hurt my image,’” she said. “How can you be so self-centered and try to distort the truth so much? It’s mind boggling.” Carmen Yulin Cruz: The mayor of San Juan responded with a tweetstorm, and one captures the theme: “This is what denial following neglect looks like: Mr Pres in the real world people died on your watch. YOUR LACK OF RESPECT IS APPALLING!” The researchers: "We stand by the science underlying our study which found there were an estimated 2,975 excess deaths in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria," says a statement from the Milken Institute School of Public Health at GWU. The report, which they say was completed with zero political interference, is here. A defense, with a mistake: While on CNN, Rick Santorum defended the Trump administration's response to Maria, saying that while FEMA plays a big role, the primary responsibility lies with the "country of Puerto Rico." Salon notes that nobody corrected him by pointing out that Puerto Rico is a territory of the US.