America’s newly elected President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have received major honors. Time magazine named him ‘Person of the Year’ for 2020. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris created history by winning the presidential election on November 7 this year. Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 US presidential election. At the same time, Kamla Harris has been elected the first black and first South Asian Vice President of America. In 2016, Time magazine selected Donald Trump as ‘Person of the Year’.
Time editor Edward Felsenthal said, ‘Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were chosen as Time magazine’s 2020 Person of the Year for their change in American story, for showing more empathy for divisive agendas and for giving the world a hope. goes.’
Time magazine started the tradition in 1927 of choosing the most influential person of the year as ‘Man of the Year’. The name was later changed to Person of the Year. In 2006, Time named ‘U’ as Person of the Year to identify people who contribute to content on the Internet. Adolf Hitler was the Man of the Year in 1938. In 2019, TIME selected the young climate activist, Greta Thunberg, as the ‘Person of the Year’.