Rubio spokesman Alex Conant went on CNN shortly after Gangel and called her report "utter nonsense."

"She did not contact the campaign prior to coming on the show last hour before reporting that. It's absolutely 100% false. CNN is doing a disservice to voters by airing that sort of reporting without even checking with the campaign," Conant said. "Her sources, whatever they are, have no idea what the internal operations of the campaign are because if she did, she would know that Marco feels confident about Florida."

Conant asked CNN host Wolf Blitzer, who was reading details of Gangel's report, to "stop reading that sort of fiction on air."

"Stop saying that now! We are confident, dammit!!!"

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