Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Crowned TIME's Person of the Year 2020
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have been named TIME magazine's Person (or people) of the Year for 2020. The pair follow in the footsteps of Greta Thunberg, who won the award in 2019, Barack Obama, and the Pope.
The selection is made by TIME editors who recognize someone who "for better or for worse... has done the most to influence the events of the year." Biden and Harris beat three other finalists—frontline healthcare workers and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the racial justice movement, and Donald Trump.
TIME magazine said of the winning pair, "Together, they offered restoration and renewal in a single ticket. And America bought what they were selling: after the highest turnout in a century, they racked up 81 million votes and counting, the most in presidential history, topping Trump by some 7 million votes and flipping five battleground states."
Biden will officially take office on 20 January. At age 78, he will be the oldest person to do so, while Harris will be the first woman, the first Black person, and the first person of South Asian descent to be inaugurated as vice president.
TIME editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal praised the two for "changing the American story, for showing that the forces of empathy are greater than the furies of division, for sharing a vision of healing in a grieving world."
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