“Unlike the Republican Party, we respect free and fair elections, and what unifies us as a party is knowing that Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy,” he said. “And my ...

According to the United States national archives, the elephant became a recognizable symbol for the Republican Party in the late 19th century after the cartoonist Thomas Nast popularized the image ...

As anyone with even a passing interest in US politics knows, the elephant represents the Republican Party and the donkey the Democratic Party. What is less well known is how the animals came to ...