Insight from AP’s reporter: Trump momentum

(3 Nov 2016) With US election day in sight, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has tried again for the discipline and restraint that has eluded him for months, hoping not to blow a burst of momentum that has him closing on Hillary Clinton. Democrat Clinton and her allies, meanwhile, are doing her best to trip up Trump. The candidates were slated to take their tussle to Florida and North Carolina on Thursday - two linchpins in Trump's plan to take the White House. With five days before election day, the unconventional Republican candidate was hewing closer to convention, running some upbeat ads, bringing out his wife for a rare campaign appearance and trying, publicly, not to veer off-message. "'Stay on point, Donald, stay on point,'" Trump teasingly quoted his staff as saying, as he campaigned Wednesday in Florida. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...