The GOP elephant made its first appearance in its 1874 cartoon "The Third Term Panic ... The artist's own political sympathies played an important role in determining which parties got associated ...

The donkey and elephant became political symbols in the United States ... In the same 1874 cartoon mentioned above, Nast depicted an elephant labeled "The Republican Vote" being frightened by ...

But the eight candidates were generally loath to delve too deep into one critical subject — the subject that Fox New moderator Bret Baier called the “elephant not in the room”— Donald ...