Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms recounted news of her projected win in Georgia’s governor’s race, which would make her the state’s first woman governor and the first Black woman to hold a U.S. governorship.
The Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University said the projected win would mark both milestones. Georgia’s Secretary of State results page listed the Nov. 3 election as unofficial in its latest update, at 2:10 a.m. ET Nov. 4.
CBS Atlanta reported CBS News’ projection of Bottoms’ win at 9:26 p.m. ET Nov. 3. The Associated Press also reported her victory.
Bottoms said on CBS Mornings Wednesday that her husband told her, “They called it.” She had AirPods in while drafting her victory remarks when he kicked her to get her attention; her son, Langston, ran into the room soon afterward. Bottoms said she had expected the count to take much longer.
CBS Atlanta reported that Bottoms, Atlanta’s mayor from 2018 to 2022, would succeed Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who was barred by law from seeking a third consecutive term. The outlet said the projected win would return the governor’s office to Democratic control after more than two decades. EconoTimes previously covered the election-night projections.
