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 ...

and TV graphics showing the image of the elephant and the donkey are everywhere. As anyone with even a passing interest in US politics knows, the elephant represents the Republican Party and the ...

The image stuck, and the donkey began to ... In the same 1874 cartoon mentioned above, Nast depicted an elephant labeled "The Republican Vote" being frightened by the donkey in the lion's skin.

In this case, the willing volunteer is the GOP elephant. "This is the fourth time in less than a year that I've drawn Trump (or his hands)," the cover's illustrator, Barry Blitt told The New Yorker.

German-born political cartoonist Thomas Nast gave America some of its most enduring symbols: the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, and Uncle Sam. Publishing regularly in Harper's Weekly ...