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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Recent Examples on the Web And Kelly isn't known to exactly deliver a barnburner on the stump. —

Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2024 Democrats have invested heavily in field offices and staff in swing states, moves Biden regularly touts on the stump. —

Jennifer Jacobs and Bill Allison / Bloomberg, TIME, 16 July 2024 What candidates say on the stump, and even what commentators say in TV studios and columns, can nonetheless influence how fragile people break. —

Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 14 July 2024 And state legislative and gubernatorial candidates from both parties likely also will cite crime statistics on the stump. —

Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for on the stump

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