stump speech
noun
US
: 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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Advertisement Throughout most of his rambling, roughly 80-minute speech, Trump relied on his usual stump speech and campaign gripes, calling Biden the worst president in history and decrying Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
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Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024
Trump advisers have privately urged the former president to embrace a new stump speech that includes a more focused attack on Harris, Axios' Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei previously reported.
—Sophia Cai, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024
Luckily, branding Harris and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) was always going to be a full-party project not wholly dependent on the nominee’s stump speech.
—W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Aug. 2024
Over the last week, the vice president has crisscrossed the country, delivering slightly different versions of the same stump speech in battleground states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia and Wisconsin.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
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Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024
Trump advisers have privately urged the former president to embrace a new stump speech that includes a more focused attack on Harris, Axios' Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei previously reported.
—Sophia Cai, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024
Luckily, branding Harris and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) was always going to be a full-party project not wholly dependent on the nominee’s stump speech.
—W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Aug. 2024
Over the last week, the vice president has crisscrossed the country, delivering slightly different versions of the same stump speech in battleground states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia and Wisconsin.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
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