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

As anyone with even a passing interest in US politics knows, the elephant ... But to Republican opponents, he was "jackass" - which had more or less the same meaning then as it does now.

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 ...

S.C.), and North Dakota governor Doug Burgum at the first Republican candidates' debate ... that Fox New moderator Bret Baier called the “elephant not in the room”— Donald Trump, the former ...