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Billionaire Rick Jackson faces former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms for Georgia governor – WTOP News
Bottoms and Jackson offer starkly different plans on Medicaid, taxes and surveillance as Jackson spends more than $200 million of his own money.
- On Sunday, Nov. 1, 2026, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms campaigned in Macon, Georgia, seeking to become the nation's first Black woman elected governor.
- Healthcare magnate Rick Jackson has self-funded his campaign with more than $200 million, while Bottoms, a former Atlanta mayor and White House adviser, dominated the primary by winning nearly all of Georgia's 159 counties.
- Bottoms proposed raising Georgia's minimum hourly wage to $15, while Jackson pledges to halve personal income taxes and expand healthcare through private partnerships.
- Jackson promised to govern like "Trump but with a Southern tone," prompting Bottoms to tell voters during their debate, "I'm not running to be his favorite governor."
- Bottoms aims to succeed where Stacey Abrams failed against Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who is barred from seeking a third consecutive term in a state reluctant to empower Atlanta.
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Billionaire Rick Jackson faces former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms for Georgia governor – WTOP News
ATLANTA (AP) — Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms and Republican Rick Jackson are running to be Georgia’s next governor in a race that could reshape control of a crucial battleground state and even make some history along the way. Bottoms, 56, could become the first Black woman elected governor in the country. She’s also a former Atlanta mayor asking for a promotion in a state whose voters have long been reluctant to hand more political power to Geor…
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Billionaire Rick Jackson faces former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms for Georgia governor
Georgia voters are deciding whether to make history by electing a Black woman as governor or to defy political trends by electing a Republican billionaire at a time when President Donald Trump’s popularity is at a historic low. Former Atlanta…
·Cherokee County, United States
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