Noun
stump speech (plural stump speeches)
(politics, chiefly US) A standard speech by a politician running for office.
Boebert calls her opponent a “far left socialist” who supports the “Green New Deal“ and “Medicare for All,“ and recounts in her stump speech a Mitsch Bush ad that touts an endorsement from Planned Parenthood. Source: Internet
During his campaign, part of Gritz's standard stump speech was an idea to pay off the National debt by minting a coin at the Treasury and sending it to the Federal Reserve. Source: Internet
Daley explained, "It was my standard stump speech. Source: Internet
Douglass's stump speech for 25 years after the end of the Civil War emphasized work to counter the racism that was then prevalent in unions. Source: Internet
He had visited my high school back in 2003, and I had asked him a tough question about education policy that he had embedded in his education stump speech. Source: Internet
I couldn’t discern more than the broadest outlines of a stump speech. Source: Internet