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"Senator Cruz is up to his dirty tricks again spreading false rumors and lies," Marco Rubio's campaign said in a statemment in response to an email sent by Cruz's campaign surrogates in Hawaii. | AP Photo Rubio campaign accuses Cruz of 'dirty tricks' in Hawaii

Marco Rubio and his campaign are accusing Ted Cruz’s campaign of spreading rumors that the Florida senator is dropping out of the race, after an email bearing Cruz's likeness was sent to supporters in Hawaii this morning.

The email in question carried the subject line "WASTED VOTE?: Big Trouble for Marco Rubio - Advisors Tell Him to Drop Out," purportedly citing "multiple news sources" but only referencing a report by CNN on Monday that cited "some advisers" suggesting that Rubio drop out of the race before the March 15 primary in his home state of Florida.

The email goes on to say, “According to multiple news sources, Marco Rubio's advisers are telling him to drop out of the presidential race before losing his home state of Florida in a few days time.” (Emphasis in the original.)

“It ain’t true, it is a lie, and unfortunately looks like Ted Cruz’s campaign is putting out emails in places like Hawaii, telling people about it, and you saw that with Ben Carson earlier. It’s just not true," Rubio said Tuesday on Fox News Radio's "Kilmeade and Friends," according to audio posted by BuzzFeed News. "You know, we have a 151 delegates, my path at end of the day is not essentially any different from his or anybody else’s. Right now no one has has a clear path to the 1,237 delegates. It’s very unique campaign, we’re not gonna run out of money and we’re not gonna run out of supporters.”

Rubio's campaign blasted the message earlier in the morning, alluding to a similar episode with another CNN report on the night of the Iowa caucuses.

"Senator Cruz is up to his dirty tricks again spreading false rumors and lies. We won't allow him to do to Marco Rubio in Florida what he did to Ben Carson in Iowa,” Rubio spokesman Joe Pounder said in a statement. “Floridians and voters across the country will reject Senator Cruz's campaign of disgusting tactics because they know a vote for Cruz is a vote for Donald Trump."

Rubio spokesman Alex Conant took to CNN on Monday shortly after the story's initial publication, asking Wolf Blitzer "to stop reading that sort of fiction on air."

"That is fiction and CNN should stop reporting it," Conant told Blitzer.

Later Monday night, Conant fired off a fundraising email that said the CNN reporter had never spoken to the campaign.

"She has terrible sources on the campaign — I was the only senior staffer who even knew who she was when she went on air," Conant wrote.

CNN told POLITICO the organization stands by the reporting “100 percent.”

This is not the first time the Cruz campaign has been accused of spreading false information to get votes. In Iowa. Cruz allies told caucus-goers that retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson was dropping out of the race and to rally behind the Texas senator instead after misinterpreting a CNN reporter's tweets. Cruz later apologized to Carson over it.

Cruz went on to win Iowa but the incident has dogged his campaign ever since. Donald Trump has taken to calling him "lyin' Ted.

But the Cruz campaign said that it was not connected to the Hawaii messages, pointing to volunteers.

"The at-issue email and social media posting was not sanctioned by the Cruz for President campaign. The campaign became aware of the email this morning by press accounts and upon investigation learned that some volunteers in Hawaii were involved in the posting," Cruz spokeswoman Alice Stewart said in a statement. "The individual(s) who sent this had no authority from the campaign to do so."

"The campaign's counsel has contacted those responsible, who were in no way authorized by the campaign, and demanded that the material be removed and further use of official campaign logos for any purpose be terminated," she continued.

The website tedcruzhawaii.org—the domain from which the email was sent—now redirects to Google.