{"id":451,"date":"2020-12-11T10:47:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T10:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=451"},"modified":"2020-12-11T10:47:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T10:47:32","slug":"biden-and-harris-named-times-person-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Biden and Harris named Time’s Person of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US President-elect Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris have been chosen as Time magazine’s Person of the Year in 2020.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“The Biden-Harris ticket represents something historic,”\u00a0Time tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Democratic pair beat three other finalists: frontline healthcare workers and Dr Anthony Fauci, the racial justice movement, and President Donald Trump, who lost the White House race.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Time has been choosing the year’s most influential person since 1927.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“For changing the American story, for showing that the forces of empathy are greater than the furies of division, for sharing a vision of healing in a grieving world, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are TIME’s 2020 Person of the Year,”\u00a0wrote Time’s editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are TIME's 2020 Person of the Year #TIMEPOY<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/o97QNlSBrl<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/KuoBoebBN4<\/a><\/p>\n

— TIME (@TIME) December 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n