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What Does ‘GOP’ Stand For?
You’ll often hear the Republican Party called “the GOP.” The initialism stands for Grand Old Party, and it’s a nickname ...
The Republicans became associated with elephants — and gained their Grand Old Party (GOP) nickname — in the 1870s. Elephants had been used to depict Republicans in a 1864 Abraham Lincoln ...
A Congress ex-MLA from Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district and several other local leaders of the party joined the BJP on Saturday, prompting a functionary from the grand old party to call them ...
I don't want to be selected the leader, I want to be elected; Mama Pakshaye Nayakaya venava venawa mai (I will most certainly become the leader of the party)", he declared. Just this week, the man who ...
Trump has “disappeared” America’s two major political parties. The Republicans’ Grand Old Party or GOP has become instead the Trump’s Own Party. It has been purged of its past relics ...
Aiyar's remarks, critical of own party's Prime Minister, has given the BJP a fresh ammunition to sharpen the attack at the grand old party. The former minister in UPA government has himself come ...