The opening of a politically-themed bar in Washington, DC., sparked community backlash that forced the owners to remove a Republican symbol from the building’s façade. The owners of Political ...

The opening of a politically-themed bar in Washington, DC, sparked community backlash that forced the owners to remove a Republican symbol from the building’s façade. The owners of Political ...

A newly opened politically-themed bar in. Washington, D.C., faced community backlash for featuring a GOP symbol, along with a Democratic symbol, as part of its logo.

On Nov. 7, 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly.

Decades later during the Civil War, Republicans used the symbol of the elephant alongside the slogan “see the elephant,” slang for the time that meant to “fight bravely,” CNN reported in 2020.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris made an analogy that seemed to encourage Democrats to act like elephants, during a Wednesday speech in San Francisco. Harris referenced a recent viral video of ...