# Georgia governor’s mansion projected to flip blue for first time in nearly 30 years

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/georgia-governors-mansion-projected-to-flip-blue-for-first-time-in-nearly-30-years/
- Published: 2026-11-04T02:19:13+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T06:55:06+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/georgia-governors-mansion-projected-flip-blue-first-time-nearly-30-years
- Topics: Americas, World

## Key points

- Keisha Lance Bottoms is projected to win Georgia’s governorship.
- The win would end Republicans’ hold on the office since 2002.
- Rick Jackson spent more than $200 million on his campaign.

## Summary

Keisha Lance Bottoms is projected to defeat Republican Rick Jackson in Georgia’s governor’s race, returning the state’s governorship to Democrats for the first time since 1998. The result would also make Bottoms the first woman to govern Georgia and the first Black woman elected governor in the United States.

Bottoms, Atlanta’s mayor from 2018 to 2022 and later a senior adviser in Joe Biden’s White House, won the Democratic nomination in an open-seat contest. Jackson, a healthcare executive and political newcomer, spent more than $200 million of his own money and defeated Trump-backed Lt Gov Burt Jones in the Republican primary runoff. Bottoms proposed expanding Medicaid and raising the minimum wage, while Jackson called for phasing out the state income tax; Democrat Jon Ossoff was also projected to win re-election to the Senate.

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