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SD Senator Mike Rounds; Possible Faulty Information on Puerto Rico Hurricane Deaths

SD Senator Mike Rounds; Possible Faulty Information on Puerto Rico Hurricane Deaths

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President Trump sent out several tweets disputing the death count in Puerto Rico from last year’s Hurricane Maria.
The study found over twenty-nine hundred people died as a result of that storm. The President said it was an inflated number circulated by democrats to make him look bad.

South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds says the final numbers could be in dispute…

Rounds says it could be a case of bad information…

Rounds says the President has a tendency to respond to every perceived slight…

Rounds says the political wrangling will only get worse as the fall election gets closer.

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