U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were jointly named Time magazine’s 2020 Person of the Year.
- According to the Time, the Democratic former vice president and his running mate, a California senator whose election broke gender and racial barriers, together offered restoration and renewal in a single ticket.
- Trump, the 45th U.S. president and Time’s 2016 Person of the Year – so honored a month after his upset election victory as the Republican nominee that year – was among three other finalists in the running this year.
- The Person of the Year is usually an individual, but multiple people have been named in the past.
- Time began its tradition of announcing it in 1927.
- Climate activist Greta Thunberg in 20-19 became the youngest individual winner of the accolade.
(Source: AIR)
