"A battle is being waged within Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's campaign about whether he should even remain in the Republican presidential race ahead of his home state primary on March 15," CNN reported Monday.



Alex Conant, Rubio's communication director, said the report of such an internal debate is "100% false." He angrily confronted CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room," saying: "That is fiction." he demanded to know how the report was published without contacting the campaign and urged CNN to “stop reading that sort of fiction on air.”



"I was sitting in a senior staff meeting planning out next week's schedule when I saw this report suddenly air and I came racing across town to correct it," he added. "CNN is doing a disservice to voters by doing that sort of reporting."



Update: Within an hour, the CNN reporter claimed she had confirmed the story with her source.





So @CNN just canceled my previously scheduled interview on @andersoncooper tonight — Alex Conant (@AlexConant) March 8, 2016