Keisha Lance Bottoms is elected America's first Black woman governor as four US states choose their first Black governors
Karen Bass, Los Angeles Mayor, with whom Raman is locked in a razor-thin race that could take weeks to resolve as outstanding votes are counted.Nithya Raman, the DSA-backed Los Angeles mayoral challenger, as Democrats nationally seized Senate control through upsets in Iowa, Kansas and Maine.
Bottoms, Atlanta's former mayor, defeated Republican Rick Jackson by roughly 360,000 votes in a result called by 9:30 p.m. — far sooner than she had anticipated; she only learned she had won when her husband nudged her on the sofa to look at the TV. Three further Black candidates claimed governor's races the same night, a single-election haul that surpasses the total number of Black governors the entire previous span of US history had produced before Tuesday.
Byron Donalds, a Republican and Trump ally, becomes Florida's first Black governor — and the first Black Republican elected governor anywhere in the US.
Wisconsin elected David Crowley as its first Black governor, while Aaron Ford won Nevada, taking the total of Black governors elected on Tuesday to four.
Wes Moore, reelected in Maryland, said: 'I was very clear that's a title I did not want to hold onto for very long.'
