Time
Biden and Harris named People of the Year
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are the "People of the Year"
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The US news magazine "Time" has elected US Presidents Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as "People of the Year".
The title "Person of the Year" of the US news magazine "Time" goes to two personalities in 2020: The magazine honors the elected US President Joe Biden (78, "Promise me") and his Vice President Kamala Harris (56). The US immunologist Anthony Fauci (79) and still-US President Donald Trump (74) were also eligible.
According to the rationale, Biden was elected US president in the middle of an existential debate – at a time when "Americans may only be able to agree on one thing", that "the future of the country is at stake". While Trump symbolized a split, Harris and Biden showed where the nation was headed – to a "mixture of ethnicities, lived experiences and worldviews that must find a way forward together" if America is to survive.
The predecessor was Thunberg
Last year the Swedish climate protection activist Greta Thunberg (17) was named "Person of the Year". You have managed to transform "the vague fears about our planet into a worldwide demand for change", it said at the time, among other things.