An ill-timed leak to ABC News that Marco Rubio isn’t being vetted for the vice presidency has prompted head-scratching among the Florida Senator’s allies, coming as it does on the day his autobiography is released…

“I think it’s interesting that the only person being singled out in this rumor is Marco,” said Navarro, a Rubio-backer and an adviser to one of Rubio’s strongest backers — former Gov. Jeb Bush.

“Either we’re being punked and he is being vetted and they are trying to create the element of surprise, or someone has an ax to grind with him, or he’s not being vetted and someone wants him to be,” she said.