"Is that a major distinction with you?"
Yes it is a major distinction. There is a big difference between someone who is asked to speak and says (paraphrase) No thank you, then someone who is asked to speak and says (paraphrase) I would love to. So they plan on him being there and at the last minute Trump backs out.
Yes there is a BIG difference.
Trump canceled, they think, due to this Cruz-bot. I saw the freak on O’Reilly last night.
“Likely factoring into Trump’s decision was a planned protest walkout during his speech at CPAC and the need to have a campaign presence in Kansas.
The organizer of the walkout, William Temple, who parades around CPAC in colonial garb, told BizPacReview he expected one thousand CPAC attendees to participate in the Trump walkout.”
Trump probably thought it would be better to avoid this snake den. Can you imagine how the news media would have handled this? They, and all the Cruz-bots, would have been incapacitated due to multiple orgasms.