“For having the confidence to sketch an ambitious future in a gloomy hour, and for showing the competence that makes Americans hopeful he might pull it off, the president-elect is TIME’s Person of the Year,” the newsweekly said.

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Time said its “Person of the Year” selection was the “person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year.”

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