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 ...

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?

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.

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 ...

For nearly 200 years, the Democratic Party has been closely associated with a noble if underappreciated beast: the donkey. While the donkey does not appear in the party's official logo ...

Jackson is cast as Balaam astride an ass—the Democratic party—giving it a vicious beating because it refuses to do as he asks. In the original story, the donkey is quite right to ignore its ...

The traditional donkey logo signifying the Democratic ticket won’t appear on Alabama’s ballots in November’s election, though the Republican elephant will still be there. State officials say ...