Photo: Executive Office of the President of the United States, public domain (official portrait of Keisha Lance Bottoms, cropped and resized) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING Politics · 05:22
Keisha Lance Bottoms elected Georgia governor, the first Black woman elected governor in the US, AP projects
Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms, a former mayor of Atlanta, was elected governor of Georgia on Tuesday night, the Associated Press projected, defeating Republican businessman Rick Jackson, who had President Trump's endorsement. The AP says she is the first Black woman elected governor in the United States and that hers is the first governorship to change parties in this year's midterms. In Florida the same night, the AP called the governor's race for Republican Byron Donalds, who becomes the state's first Black governor.