Chính trị · Georgia governorGeorgia governor election: Bottoms projected to become first Black woman elected governorĐã phát sóng lúc 15:27 UTC 4 tháng 11, 2026Đã viết lúc 15:48 UTC 4 tháng 11, 2026Đọc bài viếtTin nàyBản chép lời · ĐANG TẢI0:07Keisha Lance Bottoms leads Georgia's governor race with more than two million votes.0:12She's the projected winner.0:14Putting Democrats on course to take the office from Republicans, a confirmed victory0:19would make her the first black woman elected governor of a US state.0:23What still has to happen before that projected victory becomes official?0:27Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms is ahead of Republican businessman Rick Jackson.0:33The projected result would shift control of Georgia's executive office.0:37Officials still have to certify the election, and Bottoms hasn't taken office.0:41Voters cast their ballots in the November3 election.0:45By early the next morning, the state's published returns showed Bottoms with54 .31 %0:52of the vote.0:52Jackson had45 .69 %.0:55Those figures remain unofficial.0:57Bottoms has twenty-two hundred and sixty-eight thousand four hundred and sixty-two1:01votes, or fifty-four point three one percent.1:05Jackson has one thousand nine hundred and eight thousand two hundred and sixty-one1:09votes, or forty-five point six nine percent.1:12The state's November four update labels these results unofficial, while the1:16remaining ballot process continues.1:18The historical milestone concerns election to the office.1:22If her projected victory is confirmed, Bottoms would become the first black woman1:27elected a state governor anywhere in the country.1:30Her term would begin later.1:32Bottoms has two thousand two hundred and sixty-eight thousand four hundred and1:35sixty-two votes in the state count.1:38A separate tally puts her at two thousand two hundred sixty-eight thousand four1:42hundred and sixty-five.1:43That's a three-vote difference, and it doesn't change which candidate leads.1:48The state total is the figure used here.1:50Bottoms says her family's roots in Crawfordville stretch back at least five1:54generations.1:55She connected the election to that family history, describing a visit to the Georgia2:00town to honor her ancestors.2:02And find her great-great-grandmother's grave.2:05Autams identified her great-great-grandmother as Betsy Peake and said she was born2:10in1845 .2:11She said she found Peake's grave in a cemetery containing unmarked graves.2:15Bottoms placed that memory alongside her prospective entry into the governor's2:20office.2:20Election workers still have ballots to process.2:24Even counties that have finished their election night precinct counts continue to2:29label their returns unofficial.2:31That leaves a further official step before the projected outcome becomes a certified2:36result.2:37Chatham lists eighty-six of eighty-six precincts as election night complete, while2:42its results remain unofficial.2:44DeKalb lists nineteen one of nineteen one precincts complete, and also retains that2:50unofficial label.2:52Both county pages show why certification is still a separate step.2:56All fifty-nine counties have reportedly finished election night counting.3:01Provisional ballots and late military and overseas ballots continue to be counted3:06through Friday, November6.3:08That date covers continued counting.3:11Official certification follows completion of the remaining ballot process.Khám phá cùng HeyDexTheo dõi qua RSS
