Errr, 5 months, 13 days, 11 hours, 50 minutes but who is counting?
Your analysis is as accurate as your ability to tell time.
‘scuze my lack of peer-reviewed encyclopedic completeness of the subject. The 2016 Republican National Convention will convene in Cleveland, Ohio on July 18-21, 2016. Eleven months, close enough for a colloquial “a year” in a short comment in a casual forum with strangers.
Cruz and Trump DID have a publicly-noted but privately-held meeting just as the hair was starting to take off. Struck me as a “friendly competitors” strategy meeting, which undoubtedly addressed the fact Trump has run before to no avail, seems to have a ceiling despite his wide popularity, and wants to influence the ultimate success & choice of nominee. Cruz seems the most likely heir of Trump’s voters.