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The Democratic Party and the Donkey : Later, a caricaturist called (Thomas

Despite what is known about the Nast) published a caricature in 'Harper

donkey's poor reputation and limited magazine' entitled “A live donkey kicks a

mental abilities, the Democratic Party, dead lion” referring to the defeat of the
which is one of the two major Republicans from the Democrats in the

contemporary political parties in the presidential elections in the year 1870 .

United States and one of the poles' And, the donkey has since become the

heads has taken it as an electoral electoral symbol of the Democrats, as they
symbol in the presidential elections. organize competitions to draw the best

To be able to know the whole story of portrait of it and the best political slogans,

the donkey , we have to go back to the as well as T-shirts, hats and sunglasses
history of founding the Democratic with the Democratic donkey print that are

Party. The party was established on sold during the party's elections .

January 8, 1828, when the candidate
(Andrew Jackson) raised the slogan

“Let the people rule,” and this brought

a lot of ridicule to Jackson from his
Republican opponent, who called him

(jackass), which means in Arabic the

donkey. From here, Jackson showed a

big courage in his reaction and took the
donkey as a symbol for him and put the

paint of the donkey on all his campaign

posters.

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