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The United States Republican Party is often symbolized by an elephant. This is because of a cartoon by Thomas Nast that was published in Harper's Weekly on November 7, 1874. The democratic symbol that was revisited by a Thomas Nast cartoon, and then stuck, is the donkey.

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