Keisha Lance Bottoms becomes Georgia’s first Black governor
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Tuko
Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms won the Georgia governor’s race against Republican Rick Jackson, making the former Atlanta mayor the first Black woman elected to the post in the United States. She won despite more than $100 million invested by her opponent, according to NBC News.
Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms won the election for governor of Georgia against Republican Rick Jackson, according to an NBC News projection reported by Tuko. The Democratic Party is thus regaining control of the office for the first time in 24 years.
A former mayor of Atlanta and former adviser to Joe Biden’s administration, Keisha Lance Bottoms becomes the first woman and the first Black person elected governor of Georgia. She is also the first Black woman to hold a governorship in US history, according to Tuko.
Rick Jackson, the head of a healthcare company, had invested more than $100 million of his personal fortune in his campaign, far exceeding his rival’s spending. Keisha Lance Bottoms had previously been a judge, an Atlanta city council member and then the city’s mayor from 2018 to 2022.
Keisha Lance Bottoms’s victory follows that of Gina Hinojosa, who became Texas’s Democratic governor, announced on 4 November.
