In recent years, some have proposed other animals to help illustrate or describe what they see in the current presidential ...

German-born political cartoonist Thomas Nast gave America some of its most enduring symbols: the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, and Uncle Sam. Publishing regularly in Harper's Weekly ...

Origins: The elephant became associated with the Republican Party also thanks to Thomas Nast. In the same 1874 cartoon mentioned above, Nast depicted an elephant labeled "The Republican Vote ...

The animal logos most commonly used as symbols of the US political parties, originated as 19th century symbols of ridicule. Follow BI Video: On Twitter More from Politics The animal logos most ...

Since 1860, those two parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The Republican Party emerged in 1854 from the embers of the anti-slavery movement and the ashes of the Whigs.

Former MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews called Elon Musk an “elephant in a china shop” who is ignorant on how to get deals in Washington done after Republicans in the House rejected a spending bill ...

As anyone with even a passing interest in US politics knows, the elephant represents the Republican Party and the donkey the Democratic Party. What is less well known is how the animals came to ...

The campaign arm for Senate Republicans has created a video game starring "Giopi," an elephant that goes around jumping on high taxes and stopping Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nevada ...

A Parkersburg man who won at auction a statue of an elephant that once belonged to the late Gov. Arch Moore has given it to ...