It is thought that the Republican elephant was first used in an Illinois newspaper back in the 1860 ... Both publications used red to indicate areas that George W Bush had won and blue for ...

“Soon after our logo was painted on our building’s facade, we realized that the representation of the red elephant was hurtful to the community,” owners Andrew Benbow and Sydney Bradford said in a ...

A Republican group in Alabama is apologizing after accidentally using a picture of the GOP elephant that contained Ku Klux Klan imagery. The Lawrence County Republican Party intended to post an ...

The opening of a politically-themed bar in Washington, DC, sparked community backlash that forced the owners to remove a Republican symbol from the building’s façade. The owners of Political ...

The Lawrence County Republican Party issued an apology after its new chairman posted on Facebook a picture of the GOP elephant that depicted Ku Klux Klan symbolism. The image was posted Sunday ...

United States House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke to South Carolina Republicans at their annual GOP fundraiser Silver Elephant Dinner in Columbia, SC.

It was 1874, and then-Republican president Ulysses Grant was considering running for a third term (this was before the two-term limit was established). The cartoon depicted various animals ...

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 ...