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The Republican Party and the Elephant: It is common that Republicans give great
The elephant appeared for the first time importance to the Republican Elephant and

as a symbol for the Republican Party in an take great care to paint it and mark its huge
advertisement for the Republican candidate features in the party billboards.

(Abraham Lincoln) in the 1860 elections,
but the elephant did not turn into a political The "donkey" and the "elephant" are still a

slogan for the Republican Party until 1870 very strange thing of American political
when (Thomas Nast) published a symbols that may raise questions at times .

caricature in Harper’s magazine again, in The conflict remains so far between the
which he appeared to complain From the Republican Party and the Democratic Party

Republican Party’s departure from its over obtaining a majority in Parliament and
liberal values, and a symbol of the party by winning the presidential seat, which is now

drawing a huge, terrified elephant that governed by the Democratic President Joe
destroys everything it can set foot on with a Biden, who won the 2020 elections .

phrase “The Republican Voice” written on

its body, and from that time the elephant
has become the symbol of the Republican
Party.

The reasons for choosing the elephant

over other animals are still not clear, but the
most likely opinion about this choice is that

,choosing the elephant shows the
abundance of money in the Republicans in

addition to their electoral vote that take part
in balancing the process of voting .

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