campaign trail

noun

: a route that takes a candidate for office to different places in order to talk to people during a campaign

The candidates talked about the people they met on the campaign trail.

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On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to set up a national Bitcoin reserve and accepted donations in a range of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ether, Dogecoin, and Solana. —

Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 20 Nov. 2024 Trump on the campaign trail had argued that the legal cases against him were motivated by politics. —

Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 19 Nov. 2024 Steele, who joined Trump on the campaign trail at a town hall gathering in Pennsylvania last month, was one of the many celebrities in attendance at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night for UFC 309. —

Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2024 On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to get rid of the Department of Education. —

David Ingram, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for campaign trail

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