Here's how each symbol came to be associated with the Democratic and Republican parties: Origins: The donkey first became associated with the Democratic Party during Andrew Jackson's presidential ...

and Jacksonians adopted it as a political symbol. In the late 1820s, Andrew Jackson led a splintered group of Democratic-Republicans to form the Democratic Party. Leaders of the Democratic Party ...

The Democratic Party is presenting a message that there ... “There’s no reason for us to be afraid of using those symbols, because those symbols are our symbols and there’s nobody that ...