Josh Hafner

USA TODAY

Ted Cruz's campaign admitted to using a doctored image online that shows Marco Rubio shaking hands with Barack Obama, calling it an illustration.

On Thursday, the Rubio campaign pointed reporters toward a Cruz-funded website that shows an image of a smiling Rubio gleefully shaking left hands with Barack Obama.

"This person, we don’t know who that is, but they Photoshopped Marco’s face onto somebody else," said Rubio adviser Todd Harris, according to Time. "This is how phony and how deceitful the Cruz campaign has become.”

Rubio's right-handed, and Obama shakes with his right, too. And Twitter users later found the original image the campaign had apparently edited.

What do you have to say for yourself, Cruz campaign?

"If Rubio has a better picture of him shaking hands with Barack Obama I'm happy to swap it out," Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler told CNN. "Two days before presidential primary in South Carolina, they want to talk about a picture we used."

Tyler continued: "Every photo they use of Ted Cruz is photo-shopped."