Updated: 10/09/2024 03:01 PM EDT
A handful of Republicans are pushing back against misinformation emanating from their own party about Hurricane Milton hours before the massive storm is set to pummel Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Former President Donald Trump and his allies have made increasingly bizarre and misleading claims about the federal response to Milton and Hurricane Helene, which hammered the Southeastern U.S. last month, leaving over 200 people dead. Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell said Tuesday that the conspiracy theories, especially those surrounding the agency, are “absolutely the worst I have ever seen.”
But as millions of Florida residents evacuate or hunker down in preparation for one of largest storms to ever make landfall in the state, some GOP lawmakers are attempting to redirect the narrative…