Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are Time People of the Year

The American Magazine Time elected President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as People of the Year.

Time He explained that of Biden “they said he was too old, too boring”, that he had been criticized for saying that “hate should not be answered with hatred”, while instead he believed “that most voters simply wanted reconciliation after four years of struggle, yearning for decency, dignity, experience and competence. ”But these are the qualities that ultimately led him to success and the choice of Time.

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– TIME TIME) December 11, 2020

Always second Time however, Biden could not have won alone. In the absence of him, “what a 78-year-old white man could never have provided: generational change, a new perspective, and an embodiment of American diversity. For that, he needed Kamala Harris: a California senator, former district attorney and state attorney general.

“Defeating the Minotaur was one thing; finding the way out of the labyrinth will be another », he writes Time, adding that “there will be no rest for the winners.” In fact, in the United States “the new and tragic milestone of more than 3,000 deaths from COVID-19 in one day, millions of children have a delay in their education, millions of parents are without work.”

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