Meanwhile, it’s widely assumed that Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, who heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, would make a run for the third most powerful House job, that of ...

Typical contemporary illustrations of the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant In a few days, America will elect our next president. It’s been a particularly contentious and divisive ...

Thomas Nast, a cartoonist for Harper's Weekly, spoofed the idea by drawing a stubborn Democratic donkey trying to scare a docile, slow moving elephant he said represented the Republicans.

For instance, in the 2024 Democratic National Convention, the donkey was spot on merchandise on sale at the party's website. The origins of these symbols date back over a century to political ...

or, "Why is that donkey dressed like Uncle Sam?" The donkey has long represented the Democratic Party, just as the elephant is known to represent Republicans. How exactly did this come to be?

When the dust of the political tornado in Minnesota had finally blown away last week, it left the Democratic donkey standing there without a head. Minnesota had unseated Adlai Stevenson ...

In U.S. politics, the Democratic Party has been represented by a donkey and the Republican Party by an elephant for decades. But few people know how long they've symbolized the two big parties ...

A: The origin of the Democratic donkey is traced to the 1828 presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson, whose opponents called him a jackass. Instead of rejecting the label, Jackson — a War of ...

A large sculpture of a donkey that was designed to be a Democratic symbol was destroyed in a Maine town overnight Saturday after someone set the structure ablaze. Rep. Seth Berry described the ...