stump speech
Candidate's standard address
A stump speech is a politician's standard campaign speech, delivered repeatedly at different stops on the campaign trail.
The term comes from the 19th-century practice of speaking from tree stumps as improvised platforms.
Today it refers to any candidate's polished, well-rehearsed pitch: She's given that stump speech a hundred times.
- soapboxPlatform for haranguing
- speechmakingDelivering formal spoken addresses
- hustingsElectoral campaign proceedings
- oratoryFormal eloquent discourse
- candidatePerson seeking selection
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- campaigningcandidate, campaign signs, canvassing, campaign manager, fundraising
- oratoryspeeches, oration, orations, addresses, keynote speeches
- political eventselection, campaign, debate, vote, rally
- Presidential Electionsballot, ballot box, electoral votes, popular vote, voter turnout
- public affairspolitics, election, campaign, polling, poll
- publicitypublicity, PR, press conference, publicist, press release
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Formal argument on issues
Q&A · town hall · dialogue · interview · press conference
stump speechnational address
Official speech to citizens
televised address · fireside chat · State of the Union · Oval Office address · social media post
stump speechinaugural address
Leader's first formal oration
acceptance speech · concession speech · keynote address · congressional testimony · commencement speech
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