stump speech

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stump speech - political oratory

oratory - addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound of his own oratory"

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"This past year I've been called a radical and a racist," Vardaman says in a stump speech at the Neshoba County Fair.

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The 64-year-old Abe, who is also LDP President, made his first stump speech in the northeastern city of Fukushima.

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This scope and scale is worth remembering the next time Labour figures attack the City as a mere playground for "the one per cent" - a smear that makes it into every stump speech offered up by the party's leadership.

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Bennett focused his stump speech on the ongoing budget talks, criticizing Gov.

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However, Winfrey told People magazine it wasn't meant to be a stump speech.

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This book traces the origins, diffusion, remaking, and acceptance of the stump speech in 19th-century politics in the US, UK, and Australia.

On the Stump: Campaign Oratory and Democracy in the United States, Britain, and Australia

I leaped on to my soapbox to deliver my stump speech, telling the crowd: "It's great to be here in Bury."

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My heart fell as I read the headline: "Kansas crowd applauds Burke's stump speech" (NCR, Feb.

Stump speech

In a campaign-style stump speech, he told the party: "The past is no place to linger" and "the best is yet to come." The partisan crowd responded with a standing ovation.

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Giving a stump speech in High Wycombe, Mr Johnson insisted the 'In' side was "rattled" with just 10 days to go to the EU referendum.

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At one point, the protests became so frequent that Trump asked them to stop so he could hit key points in his stump speech. "Can the protesters stop for a couple of seconds so we can talk?" Trump asked.