Keisha Lance Bottoms Beats Rick Jackson, Becomes First Black Woman Governor
Summary
The article says Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms won Georgia’s governor’s race and would become the first Black woman elected governor in the United States. However, it also reports that with 72 percent of votes counted, Rick Jackson led Bottoms 56 percent to 44 percent, so the article’s account of the result is inconsistent.Key Facts
- The article identifies Bottoms as a former mayor of Atlanta and Jackson as the founder of Jackson Healthcare.
- The race was to succeed term-limited Republican Governor Brian Kemp.
- The article says President Donald Trump endorsed Jackson.
- Jackson proposed cutting Georgia’s personal income tax in half by the end of his first term and raising public employees’ pay.
- Bottoms campaigned to expand Medicaid, raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, and increase pay for teachers, firefighters and police officers.
- Bottoms also proposed pausing data center development and blocking expansion of AI-powered Flock surveillance cameras used by law enforcement.
- The article says Bottoms pledged to seek to overturn Georgia’s six-week abortion ban.
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