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U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have been jointly named Time magazine’s 2020 Person of the Year.
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, Time said in a profile of the pair, published online with its announcement.
Following the U.S. presidential campaign, waged in the throes of a deadly pandemic, economic devastation and a strife-torn national reckoning with racism, Biden and Harris prevailed in an election that drew the highest voter turnout in a century.
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, Time said.
The Person of the Year is usually an individual, but multiple people have been named in the past. Time began its tradition in 1927. Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg last year became the youngest individual winner of the accolade.