stump speech

noun

: a speech that is made many times by a politician who is traveling to different places during a campaign for election

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Harris varies little from her stump speech at rallies. —

Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024 Harris didn't deviate much from her standard stump speech in West Allis, Michigan, a Milwaukee suburb of Milwaukee. —

Lucia Suarez Sang, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2024 Then the motorcade proceeded to the private fund-raiser, in a wealthy part of town, where Emhoff gave the same stump speech, got another warm reception, and raised a million dollars. —

Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024 Trump has stumbled in recent weeks and his advisers are urging him to introduce a new stump speech that paints Vice President Kamala Harris as liberal and weak, Axios Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei report. —

Erin Doherty, Axios, 12 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for stump speech