Joe Biden, Kamala Harris named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’
The incoming president and his vice-president were chosen as Time magazine’s Person of the Year.” Other finalists included frontline healthcare workers and Anthony Fauci.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are TIME's 2020 Person of the Year #TIMEPOY https://t.co/o97QNlSBrl pic.twitter.com/KuoBoebBN4
— TIME (@TIME) December 11, 2020
“They come from different coasts, different ideologies, different Americas. But they also have much in common, says Biden: working-class backgrounds, blended families, shared values,” the Time magazine wrote.
Biden won the presidency by getting a record number of votes in an election that saw the highest turnout in any US election. Kamala Harris is set to become the first female, the first Black, and the first Asian-American vice president of the US.
Last year, the influential US magazine named teen climate activist Greta Thunberg as the ‘Person of the Year,‘ while Trump won in 2016.
Time Magazine has named a ‘Person of the Year’ annually since 1929. The title goes to figures who have had the greatest impact on the world over the past year.
‘Guardians of the Year’
The magazine on Thursday also named Anthony Fauci and frontline health workers as ‘Guardians of the Year’ for the role they played in the handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
As political division and misinformation about COVID-19 threatened the public health of the U.S., Dr. Anthony Fauci emerged as a stalwart guardian of science—and facts.
“Public health knows no politics. You’re just driven by the truth,” he says #TIMEPOY https://t.co/pq0MA3K6Pg pic.twitter.com/1pz3HmIbzH
— TIME (@TIME) December 11, 2020
The publication honored healthcare workers around the world, who “displayed the best of humanity—selflessness, compassion, stamina, courage—while protecting as much of it as they could.”
“By risking their lives every day for the strangers who arrived at their workplace, they made conspicuous a foundational principle of both medicine and democracy: equality,” the magazine wrote.
