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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And state legislative and gubernatorial candidates from both parties likely also will cite crime statistics on the stump.
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024
The comments come after Trump evoked Haley’s husband, who is deployed overseas with the South Carolina Army National Guard, on the stump.
—Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024
Trump is seventy-seven and often rambling and shouty on the stump.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2024
For much of the campaign season, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy avoided criticizing Trump directly while on the stump, excluding questions from voters during their events.
—Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024
The comments come after Trump evoked Haley’s husband, who is deployed overseas with the South Carolina Army National Guard, on the stump.
—Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024
Trump is seventy-seven and often rambling and shouty on the stump.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2024
For much of the campaign season, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy avoided criticizing Trump directly while on the stump, excluding questions from voters during their events.
—Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
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