Marco Rubio spoke to a 'nearly empty' stadium today in Florida

The stadium where Marco Rubio spoke on Wednesday.

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published 10 March 2016

Depending on the photo you're looking at, Marco Rubio's rally Wednesday in Hialeah, Florida, was either a rousing success or the moment his campaign hit rock bottom.

CNN's Jason Carroll reported live from the event, held at a high school football stadium, and said it was "much, much smaller" than previous Rubio events, with only a "couple hundred" people "not even filling the end zone." To really pour some salt into the wound, CNN's graphics department went with the breaking news caption "Stadium nearly empty for Rubio rally," and the Washington Examiner's Byron York snapped a photo as proof:

Compare that to the people-filled, extreme close-up photos tweeted and retweeted by the Rubio campaign:

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Florida, of course, is Rubio's home state, and the senator claims to be confident he's going to win the Republican primary there next week.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.