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“Time” crowns Joe Biden and Kamala Harris personalities of the year

 

A little more than a month after the American presidential election which saw Joe Biden win against Donald Trump, it is the Democrat accompanied by his running mate Kamala Harris who succeed Greta Thunberg by being crowned “Personalities of the ‘year’ by American magazine Time. Joe Biden, 79, who needs to be invested 46e President of the United States on January 20, and Kamala Harris, the first woman called to become vice president, were chosen before three other finalists – Donald Trump, the movement against racial inequalities sparked by the death of George Floyd in late May in Minneapolis , and Dr Anthony Fauci and the caregivers most at risk from the coronavirus.

In 2019, the magazine chose Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16 years youngest recipient of the award since 1927. The cover of the magazine shows an image of Biden, 78, and Harris, 56, marked with the title , “Changing the History of America”. The former vice-president of Barack Obama is one of the few candidates in the history of the United States to succeed in defeating an incumbent president, the magazine noted. Even as Donald Trump continues to challenge his rival’s victory, Joe Biden won some seven million more votes than the former real estate mogul.

“He was perhaps the only Democratic candidate who could regain some of the ground lost among the culturally conservative white voters who dominate the key Rust Belt states,” said Time. “Together, (Biden and Harris) were offering both renewal and restoration,” and “America bought what they were offering,” he added.

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