Indeed, he swept all of the key battleground states and was the first Republican to win the popular vote in two decades. However, Mr. Trump won the popular vote by only 1.5 percentage points ...

Origins: The elephant became associated with the Republican Party also thanks to Thomas Nast. In the same 1874 cartoon mentioned above, Nast depicted an elephant labeled "The Republican Vote ...

Morey, of Rutland, held one that said, “We need to talk about the elephant in the womb,” with a drawing of the Republican elephant symbol inside a sketch of the female reproductive system.