{"id":418,"date":"2026-11-04T13:58:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T18:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2026-11-04T13:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T18:58:35","slug":"how-keisha-lance-bottoms-found-out-she-was-elected-georgias-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"How Keisha Lance Bottoms found out she was elected Georgia&#x27;s governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><!-- AVision: picture 1 left out \u2014 the site answered HTTP 500 to POST \/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media with no explanation \u2014 the SERVER failed on the request: a PHP fa --><\/figure>\n<p>Keisha Lance Bottoms has been elected governor of Georgia, making history as the first Black woman to serve as governor in any U.S. state. Her victory comes as part of a broader wave of female gubernatorial wins across the country, with voters in 15 states electing female governors \u2014 a new record \u2014 as Democrats made sweeping gains up and down the ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-source\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/keisha-lance-bottoms-georgia-governor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News \u2014 How Keisha Lance Bottoms found out she was elected Georgia&#x27;s governor<\/a>. Also reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/record-number-female-governors-elected-rcna607366\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-credit\"><em>AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source&#x27;s. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keisha Lance Bottoms has been elected governor of Georgia, making history as the first Black&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[63,310,308,309,307],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-2026","tag-election-2026","tag-female-governors","tag-georgia-governor","tag-historic-election","tag-keisha-lance-bottoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}