2020 Person of the Year: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

Time Magazine named President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris as its Person of the Year for 2020.

Edward Felsenthal, editor-in-chief of Time, noted that Biden was elected “in the midst of an existential debate about the reality we live in” and yet “won a higher percentage of the popular vote than any rival for a presidential incumbent. from Franklin Roosevelt “.

Felsenthal also noted that every president-elect since World War II has at some point during their tenure been a Person of the Year, but it was the first time the magazine had featured a vice president.

“In a year that saw an epic fight for racial justice and one of the most important elections in history, the Biden-Harris association sends a powerful message,” Felsenthal wrote.

The challenge for the new administration, Felsenthal continues, will be trying to unite a nation that is more divided now than in a century.

“The odds may be high. But it will be among the most critical chapters in the arduous search for a more perfect union.”