As the 2020 US presidential election nears, badges, election leaflets, and TV graphics showing the image of the elephant and the donkey are everywhere. As anyone with even a passing interest in US ...

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 ...

S.C.), and North Dakota governor Doug Burgum at the first Republican candidates' debate ... that Fox New moderator Bret Baier called the “elephant not in the room”— Donald Trump, the former ...

In this case, the willing volunteer is the GOP elephant. "This is the fourth time in less than a year that I've drawn Trump (or his hands)," the cover's illustrator, Barry Blitt told The New Yorker.

The donkey and elephant became political symbols in the United States through a combination of political satire and popular culture, primarily driven by cartoonists in the 19th century. Here's how ...