Keisha Lance Bottoms will be the first Black female governor elected in the country, after she won the Georgia governor’s race, according to a race call by the Associated Press.
Bottoms’ win marks the first time Georgia has elected a Democratic governor in more than 20 years, breaking the Republican hold on state government in Georgia. But she will likely be working with a Republican majority in at least one chamber of the legislature.
It’s insane how many red state races are up in the air with a <50 vote differences. “Voting doesn’t matter” is just another voter suppression tactic, but since it’s implicit people don’t clock it.