Understood the system and walked. Its logical he didn’t want to be jerked around.
It seems that the system, when it doesn't start with private votes in primaries, starts with making deals and promises in order to get delegate support. Isn't that exactly what Trump is campaigning against, insider deals where pols make promises for support?
Shouldn't we all be uncomfortable with delegates who don't represent or in the case of CO even know the will of the voters?
That's what Manafort said about the Colorado delegate seating action. That the Trump campaign saw how it was being managed, and knew that resistance at that place and time was futile.
Conventional wisdom is that they walked away, and that's that. But the rules go beyond delegate selection, and whatver "walking" took place is retreat, not surrender.
It’s the art of the deal!