I think he felt happy and thankful to all the people who had voted for him. knowing that they have faith in him and he believed that the people who had voted for him believed in him and put their trust in him.
It would most likely be B or C since they are the same. Dashes basically show emphasis and if the sentence inside them is taken away, the other parts of the sentence are not affected. If we took the lion part out of your sentence, the sentence would still be talking about symbolism. However it more common to use parenthesis or commas to add emphasis but that's just stylistic choice
A writer focuses on many things.
Some of them include:
Spelling
Capitalization
Punctuation marks
Topic
Number of paragraphs
And, the hook to grab the readers attention in the intro paragraph
I was told something crazy happens!
