HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — It’s just past 11:00 a.m., and former President Donald Trump is nearly seven hours from taking the stage at the Farm Show Complex here in Dauphin County, and yet the traffic to get into the massive Farm Show campus stretches for miles along U.S. 22.

Nine-year-old Colton Ream is walking with his parents, intermittently holding their hands and getting caught up in straining to go to the vendor booth ahead, which is filled with colorful patriotic merchandise, as they walk toward the line that wraps around the complex. The Ream family said they left their Annville home early in the morning to take their son to his first Trump rally.