Republican Elephant and Democratic Donkey??

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Democratic donkey was first associated with Democrat Andrew Jackson's 1828 presidential campaign. His opponents called him a jackass (a donkey), and Jackson decided to use the image of the strong-willed animal on his campaign posters.

Nast invented another famous symbol—the Republican elephant. In a cartoon that appeared in Harper's Weekly in 1874, Nast drew a donkey clothed in lion's skin, scaring away all the animals at the zoo. One of those animals, the elephant, was labeled “The Republican Vote.” That's all it took for the elephant to become associated with the Republican Party.
Democrats today say the donkey is smart and brave, while Republicans say the elephant is strong and dignified.

The elephant comes out of an advertisement in 1860 of an elephant wearing great boots

the republicans used a very copycat elephant to carry their victory message

Thomas Nast had a donkey frightening (1874)a great many animals except a giant elephant and the later after a loss he showed the elephant no longer victorious but bandaged 1877