Politics
Keisha Lance Bottoms Wins Georgia Governor’s Race, Flipping the Office for Democrats
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Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms has won Georgia’s race for governor, defeating Republican Rick Jackson and flipping control of the state office for Democrats for the first time in 24 years.
- Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms won Georgia’s gubernatorial race, defeating Republican Rick Jackson.
- The victory flips control of the battleground state office for the first time in 24 years, since 1998.
- Bottoms is the first woman and the first Black person elected governor of Georgia, as well as the nation's first Black female governor.
- Bottoms overcame a major spending disadvantage against Jackson, a wealthy healthcare executive who poured over $100 million of his own money into his campaign.
- Bottoms focused her campaign on affordability and economic issues while linking Jackson to Donald Trump.
- Bottoms will succeed term-limited Republican Governor Brian Kemp.
- Sen. Jon Ossoff and high-profile national Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, campaigned for and supported Bottoms.
- Jackson, a first-time candidate, attempted to cast himself as a Trump-style outsider during the primary before connecting himself to Kemp in the general election.
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