
Former Atlanta mayor defeats Republican billionaire Rick Jackson in gubernatorial race
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Stacey Abrams lost the Georgia governor's race in 2018 and 2022 to Brian Kemp, who is leaving office in January after eight years due to term limits. Bottoms' win marks the third consecutive time Georgia Democrats have nominated a Black woman for governor.
Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms has made history as the first Black woman elected governor in the United States.
The former Atlanta mayor emerged victorious over her billionaire opponent, Republican Rick Jackson, who spent more than $200m of his own personal fortune to succeed popular outgoing Republican Governor Brian Kemp.
Bottoms, an adviser to former US President Joe Biden, was propelled to victory in part by the state's significant Black voting bloc that turned out in large numbers during early voting.
During the campaign, she has faced Republican accusations that attempted to characterise her time as mayor as a crime-ridden decline for the state's largest city.
"It's a long-standing playbook to paint Atlanta as this big bad place," Bottoms told the Associated Press in an interview.
Bottoms' win marks the third consecutive time that Georgia Democrats have nominated a Black woman for governor. Stacey Abrams lost in 2018 and 2022 to Kemp, who is leaving office in January after eight years due to term limits.
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Bottoms will be sworn in as governor of Georgia in January
Very likely · Within months

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