For the first time ever, a president-elect and vice president-elect have appeared together on a Person of the Year cover- Time elected Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the Person of the Year, on the 11th of December, 2020. Although, the choice of Biden isn't exactly a surprise, as selecting a president-elect for Person of the Year is a nearly nine-decade-old tradition at the magazine. The first ever Person of the Year elected by Time was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1932 for his New Deal plan to bring America out of the Great Depression.
What actually pushed the envelope was the paradigm shift of electing the Vice- President candidate, as well. Harris is the nation's first female, first Black and first South Asian VP choose. Biden, who at 78 will be the eldest individual actually to expect the presidency administration, is likewise the most established ever to be named Person of the Year by the magazine. He follows Greta Thunberg, the Swedish atmosphere dissident who a year ago turned into the most youthful ever to get the honor — at age 16. The Democratic pair beat three other finalists: frontline healthcare workers and Dr Anthony Fauci, the racial justice movement, and President Donald Trump, who lost the White House race.
"If Donald Trump was a force for disruption and division over the past four years, Biden and Harris show where the nation is heading: a blend of ethnicities, lived experiences and worldviews that must find a way forward together if the American experiment is to survive,"
- the magazine's Editor-in-Chief, Felsenthal.
Time has been choosing the year's most influential person since 1927 and it's been the same ritual ever since when when Time named the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh its first man of the year, as the honor was then called. The last three presidents — Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, each of whom was elected to a second term, unlike Mr. Trump — were named Time magazine person of the year twice while in office.
According to sources, Mr. Biden, 78, the former vice president under President Barack Obama, and Ms. Harris, 56, a U.S. senator, and the first Indian-American elected to the vice presidency, will appear side by side in a portrait on the magazine’s cover on Dec 21.
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