the elephant became a recognizable symbol for the Republican Party in the late 19th century after the cartoonist Thomas Nast popularized the image and association in the magazine Harper's Weekly ...

The months-long frenzy surrounding the 2024 U.S. presidential election both masked and underscored the presence of a very ...

The image stuck, and the donkey began to ... In the same 1874 cartoon mentioned above, Nast depicted an elephant labeled "The Republican Vote" being frightened by the donkey in the lion's skin.

and TV graphics showing the image of the elephant and the donkey are everywhere. As anyone with even a passing interest in US politics knows, the elephant represents the Republican Party and the ...