# Bottoms Up!

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/bottoms-up/
- Published: 2026-11-04T20:58:11+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-04T22:06:14+00:00
- Original publisher: Mother Jones (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/11/bottoms-up/
- Topics: Politics

## Key points

- Keisha Lance Bottoms won Georgia’s governorship by nearly nine points.
- She is the first Black woman elected governor in the US.
- Kemp ruled out a special session on redistricting changes.

## Summary

Keisha Lance Bottoms has won Georgia’s governorship, becoming the state’s first Democratic governor in more than two decades and the first Black woman to serve as a US governor. Her victory in a close-fought race is part of a wider Democratic advance in Georgia, where several Black women also won statewide offices.

The former Atlanta mayor and Biden White House adviser defeated Republican businessman Rick Jackson by nearly nine points. Bottoms’ campaign focused on housing and healthcare costs, Medicaid expansion, education funding and reproductive rights. Outgoing Governor Brian Kemp said he would not call a special legislative session to change executive powers or debate redistricting, adding that voters had spoken.

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