Rubio Communications Director Spars with CNN Following Report on Rubio Dropping Out

Curtis Houck | March 7, 2016
Font Size

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.

Less than an hour after CNN published an article by special correspondent Jamie Gangel alleging that top Marco Rubio advisers are pushing for him to drop out before the March 15 Florida primary, Rubio communications director Alex Conant took to CNN’s The Situation Room to excoriate the outlet for its “utter nonsense” and “fiction” that didn’t even seek public comment from the campaign. 

Host Wolf Blitzer set the scene but Conant was quickly on the attack by first declaring that “Jamie's report was utter nonsense” seeing as how “[s]he did not contact the campaign prior to coming on the show last hour and reporting that.”

donate