Via CNN:
A Republican National Convention delegate from Colorado said Friday that Donald Trump’s senior adviser told him the campaign was dropping its challenge to rival Ted Cruz’s sweep of the state’s delegates — an account the campaign is disputing.
Guy Short, a national delegate from Colorado and member of the convention’s rules committee, said he approached Trump’s convention manager, Paul Manafort, after he gave Republican Party insiders a private briefing in Florida earlier this week and asked about Trump’s threat to challenge what the billionaire has called a “rigged” system.
“Is the Trump campaign going to challenge the credentials of the Colorado delegation? And he said, ‘no,'” Short, a Cruz supporter, said. According to Short, Manafort “said, ‘Cooler heads have prevailed. We’re moving forward. We’re trying to unite the party.'”
But Manafort characterized the exchange as a “passing comment,” not a change of position, downplaying its significance.