Another tentpole of the stump speech is tailoring it to the audience with a little local color. When Hillary Clinton addressed a crowd at Tampa’s University of South Florida in September 2016 ...

A stump speech, even in the fragmented world of social media, ... For example: “Our mission is to reinvent X by democratizing access to Y so that more people than ever can accomplish Z.” ...

For example: “Our mission is ... Brand speeches can be scary, which is why they are important. Stump speeches are gripping, bold, and powerful, but bold and powerful language scares leadership.

US Senate candidate Herschel Walker of Georgia delivered a bizarre diatribe about vampires and werewolves during a stump speech in McDonough, Georgia, on Wednesday in a verbose example of the ...

Kamala Harris’ stump speech contains few factual errors, while Donald Trump’s rallies are a font of exaggerations. The two presidential candidates differ greatly in rhetoric and adherence to ...

Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled new tax proposals for small businesses Tuesday, which she is expected to announce publicly during her stump speech in New Hampshire on Wednesday. The proposal ...

Trump reframes stump speech to include Harris as Democrats consider Biden’s future. His hedging reflected how questions about Biden’s capacity to lead have upended and redefined the ...

The Origin of Stump Speeches. Back in Revolutionary War–era America, orators in rural communities sometimes stood on actual tree stumps to elevate themselves above listeners. By the early 19th ...

For example, Ms. Harris claimed in multiple rallies in August that Mr. Trump “intends” to repeal the Affordable Care Act and “take us back to a time when insurance companies have the power ...