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 ...

Indeed, he swept all of the key battleground states and was the first Republican to win the popular vote in two decades. However, Mr. Trump won the popular vote by only 1.5 percentage points ...

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 ...

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.

A donkey wearing a lion’s skin representing “Caesarism” frightens away an elephant labeled as the “Republican vote,” nearly falling into the trap of claims by Democratic-leaning Southern ...

WASHINGTON – Congressional Republicans have been talking for months about how swiftly they'll move to enact President Donald Trump's agenda once he comes into office. That time has finally come.

Morey, of Rutland, held one that said, “We need to talk about the elephant in the womb,” with a drawing of the Republican elephant symbol inside a sketch of the female reproductive system.