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

Examples of on the stump in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 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 See all Example Sentences for on the stump

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