Renowned International publication ‘TIME’ magazine has jointly named US President-elect Joe Biden US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as ‘Person of the year’.
The New York based news, magazine publication ‘TIME’ has named Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as joint ‘Person of the year’ for 2020.
The duo will feature on the cover of one of the highly rated, respected magazines of the world.
The development comes as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the US Presidential Elections last month in November 2020.
Both Biden and Harris lead an intensive, tiring political campaign against US President Donald Trump as the country faces extensive political ,social unrest and polarization.
The Biden-Harris duo faces an uphill battle as US stands divided into far-right conservatives on one hand, with leftist liberals on the the other.
The first and foremost challenge for both of them will be to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic which had pushed United States into extensive socio-economic turmoil as the country has been subjected to the worst, reporting highest coroanvirus cases and death toll in the world.
“Together, they offered restoration and renewal in a single ticket. And America bought what they were selling after the highest turnout in a century, they racked up 81 million votes and counting, the most in presidential history, topping Trump by some 7 million votes,” wrote TIME magazine in the profile section.
Joe Biden, who previously has already served as 47th US Vice President under President Barack Obama is set to be sworn in as 46th President of the United States on January 20th 2021 next year.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris – an American politician born to Jamaican-Indian parents, is set to become 49th US Vice President.
TIME Person of the Year
TIME Person of the Year is an annual issue of the United States news magazine and website Time that features and profiles a person, a group, an idea, or an object that ‘for better or for worse… has done the most to influence the events of the year’. TIME also has a reader’s poll that has no effect on the selection, made solely by TIME editors.
The tradition of selecting a ‘Man of the Year’ began in 1927, with Time editors contemplating the news makers of the years.
The idea was also an attempt to remedy the editorial embarrassment earlier that year of not having aviator Charles Lindbergh on its cover following his historic trans-Atlantic flight. By the end of the year, it was decided that a cover story featuring Lindbergh as the Man of the Year would serve both purposes.
Since the list began, every serving president of the United States has been a Man or Person of the Year at least once with the exceptions of Calvin Coolidge (in office at time of the first issue), Herbert Hoover (the subsequent U.S. president), and Gerald Ford.
Most were named Man or Person of the Year either the year they were elected or while they were in office; the only one to be given the title before being elected is Dwight D. Eisenhower, in 1944 as Supreme Commander of the Allied Invasion Force, eight years before his election.
He subsequently received the title again in 1959, while in office. Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only person to have received the title three times, first as president-elect (1932) and later as the incumbent president (1934 and 1941).
