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 ...

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 ...

(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The eight Republican presidential hopefuls ... the subject that Fox New moderator Bret Baier called the “elephant not in the room”— Donald Trump, the former ...

Origins: The elephant became associated with the Republican Party also thanks to Thomas Nast. In the same 1874 cartoon ...