“Only right before the general election”
Yes, and that’s a danger for Trump. We Trumpians are ready to vote right now. The sale is closed, the deal is done.
This gives the anti-Trump faction a whole fourteen months to spread FUD, which, as anyone in sales knows, is the best way to kill the deal.
In Dubuque and at all rallies around the country, his team is signing up county precinct captains, organizers, and volunteers who will organize and then spread out and bring in voters from other candidates and parties (as well as those who don't usually vote).
His team and Trump himself will build his organization until it reaches a crescendo at the Cleveland convention.
From the convention until the General Election will be a cake walk.