Biden AND Kamala Harris are awarded Time Person of the Year for 2020 over Trump and frontline COVID workers - despite ONLY the president-elect being on the shortlist Time magazine's 2020 'Person of the Year' was announced as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Thursday Time said they chose the pair for their victory over Trump, in which they ousted an incumbent president for just the 10th time in US history Harris is the first Vice President-elect to be named Person of the Year Frontline health care workers, Anthony Fauci, the racial justice movement and President Trump were among the runners up