She says this at almost every campaign stop.

Almost every campaign stop has taken place in front of a hand-picked audience: party faithful, schoolchildren, vetted shop workers.

Once he announced his candidacy for president it became apparent that this tour was a campaign stop.

Canvassing together, they spent the first part of each campaign stop cussing out each other's politics and telling stories, and the second part playing fiddle tunes while the crowd danced.

Eight campaign stops in 24 hours, a frenetic, sleepless cross-country blitz taking in 740 miles of tarmac, several gallons of coffee and an enormous fish.