on the stump
idiom
: traveling around and giving speeches during a campaign for election to a political office
candidates who give the same speech over and over when they're on the stump
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Trump, on the other hand, has been striking a quasi-isolationist stance on the stump that seems to be finding favor on the trail.
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Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2024
All the while, Trump continued to fulminate on the stump.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Harris, Liz Cheney on the stump One of Donald Trump’s fiercest Republican antagonists, Liz Cheney was to join Kamala Harris today at a campaign event in Wisconsin aimed at wooing moderate voters and rattling the former president.
—Express-News Digital Team, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Oct. 2024
And Kelly isn't known to exactly deliver a barnburner on the stump.
—Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2024
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Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2024
All the while, Trump continued to fulminate on the stump.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Harris, Liz Cheney on the stump One of Donald Trump’s fiercest Republican antagonists, Liz Cheney was to join Kamala Harris today at a campaign event in Wisconsin aimed at wooing moderate voters and rattling the former president.
—Express-News Digital Team, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Oct. 2024
And Kelly isn't known to exactly deliver a barnburner on the stump.
—Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2024
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“On the stump.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20the%20stump. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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