BLUE TSUNAMI CRASHES OVER GEORGIA

All eyes were on Georgia during the 2026 midterm elections, and another major political transformation took place (Remember Warnock and Ossoff in 2021)? History has been made! Keisha Lance Bottoms, former mayor of Atlanta, has been elected governor of Georgia – the first Black female governor of Georgia – with 54.34% of the vote – a decisive win over her opponent, Republican Rick Jackson at 45.66%. With this barrier-breaking win, Bottoms becomes the first Black woman in American history to win the highest executive office in any state. She broke through a ceiling in American politics that has been traditionally sealed against women of color since the nation’s founding. Ironically, Bottoms will govern the state where her great-great-grandfather, Sheppard Peak, was enslaved and listed as property worth $1,400, of a white man in Crawfordville, GA.

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