Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, a Democrat, has become the first Black woman in U.S. history to be elected as a state governor.
Bottoms won the gubernatorial election in Georgia, RIA Novosti reports, citing the Associated Press. Previously, only three Black men had ever served as governors of U.S. states.
Bottoms is also the first Democrat to win a Georgia gubernatorial election since 1998. She defeated the Republican candidate, billionaire Rick Jackson, who invested more than $200 million of his own money into his campaign—an amount that significantly exceeded his opponent’s spending.
“Regardless of who you voted for today, I will be the governor for all the people of Georgia,” Bottoms told her supporters in Atlanta.
She will succeed Republican Brian Kemp, who was ineligible to run for a third term under state law.
As reported by the newspaper VZGLYAD, U.S. President Donald Trump stated on Wednesday that he was prepared to accept the results of the midterm congressional elections.
On Tuesday, the administration of the U.S. president described the atmosphere on election day as “cautiously optimistic.”
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