He is "honoring" the campaign commitments he made to the people of NC. He is determined to keep everyone, as many were invites, and others involved school children and college students. In other words, just because he has made a difficult decision, he isn't going to blow off the people he made commitments and promises to, like the other candidates did when they dropped out. HONOR.
Like he honored his commitments to Dede Scozzafava, Nancy Pelosi, Nalson Rockefeller? Somehow he only backstabbed consewrvatives.