In recent years, some have proposed other animals to help illustrate or describe what they see in the current presidential ...

Popularization: Nast continued to use the elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party in subsequent cartoons, and the association became widely accepted. Over time, the elephant came to ...

the elephant represents the Republican Party and the donkey the Democratic Party. What is less well known is how the animals came to adopted as symbols for the two biggest political forces in the US.

The animal logos most commonly used as symbols of the US political parties, originated as 19th century symbols of ridicule. Follow BI Video: On Twitter More from Politics The animal logos most ...

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.