Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former Atlanta mayor and Democrat, won the race for Georgia governor on Tuesday in an upset for Republicans. Bottoms will become the first Black, female governor in the US.Georgia is historically a swing state offering tight margins to the winners of statewide contests, and billionaire businessman Rick Jackson had been favored to win the race until recent days. Lance Bottoms campaigned with Democratic senator Jon Ossoff, who also won re-election on Tuesday, as well as former president Barack Obama days before the election.Jackson poured more than $100m of his personal fortune into the campaign, flooding the media with chaotic scenes from the 2020 George Floyd protests and the death of Secoriea Turner, an eight-year-old girl murdered during a street takeover by rifle-bearing gunmen.But in a sign of tides turning against Donald Trump and Republicans as a whole, voters elected Lance Bottoms.
Georgia: Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms becomes first Black, female governor in US
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