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Statue of Liberty – Libertarian Party. Also a national symbol; Sunflower – Green Party; also, Republican presidential candidate Alfred Landon of Kansas in 1936; Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson – Democratic Party – used as a fundraising symbol (such as with the party's annual "Jefferson-Jackson Dinner" in many states)
A red elephant, a symbol of the Republican Party. The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States. It is the second-oldest extant political party in the United States after its main political rival, the Democratic Party.
The elephant as the symbol for the Republican Party of the United States originated in an 1874 political cartoon of an Asian elephant by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly. This cartoon, titled "Third Term Panic", is a parody of Aesop's fable , [ h ] " The Ass in the Lion's Skin ".
The Democratic Party continued to use the donkey as a symbol of the common man. SEE ALSO: Poll reveals which candidate's speech impacted voters The donkey stuck when Thomas Nast published a ...
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An alternate symbol of the Republican Party in states such as Indiana, New York and Ohio is the bald eagle as opposed to the Democratic rooster or the Democratic five-pointed star. [225] [226] In Kentucky, the log cabin is a symbol of the Republican Party. [227] Traditionally the party had no consistent color identity.
The Republican National Convention kicked off Monday in Milwaukee, and pro-Trump accessories — many of them custom — were on full display.
The National Republican Party, also known as the Anti-Jacksonian Party or simply Republicans, [2] was a political party in the United States which evolved from a conservative-leaning faction of the Democratic-Republican Party that supported John Quincy Adams in the 1824 presidential election.