The donkey and elephant, representing Democrats and Republicans, owe their iconic status to 19th-century cartoonist Thomas ...

In 1828, during his presidential campaign, Democratic leader Andrew Jackson's opponents referred to him as a 'jackass,' which ...

The Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant are two of the most recognizable symbols in American politics, representing ...

In a political cartoon from 1874 called 'Third Term Panic', Nast is credited with portraying the elephant as a symbol of the ...

ALBAWABA - As the 2024 US elections are in just six days, some people started to question the meaning behind the donkey and ...

The symbols tied to the Republican and Democratic parties (the elephant and donkey) have actually been around for more than 100 years.

On the eve of an election marked by increasingly heated rhetoric, the Washington State Republican Party sent text messages to ...

Over the course of the last decade, President-elect Donald Trump broke both national political parties. Now Democrats must ...

On the eve of an election marked by increasingly heated rhetoric, the Washington State Republican Party sent text messages to ...

On Nov. 7, 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly.

The animal mascots that represent the Democrats and Republicans were created over a century ago with color-coding scheme a ...