Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been named Time magazine’s person of the year for 2020.

The magazine noted: “Together, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris 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 and flipping five battleground states.” The honor for Biden sees him follow in the footsteps of Barack Obama (2012) and Donald Trump (2016). Last year’s winner was climate activist Greta Thunberg.

Biden, 78, who served two terms as vice president to Barack Obama, will become the oldest person to assume the office of U.S president when he is sworn in on 20 January. Kamala Harris will become the first woman, the first Black and the first person of Asian descent to be inaugurated vice president.

The Person of the Year is usually an individual, but multiple people have been named in the past. In recent years the magazine has also taken to recognizing groups or movements. In 2017, the magazine selected “The Silence Breakers” of the MeToo movement, and in 2018, chose to designate journalists who were imprisoned or killed for their work.

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