2026年11月4日 美国东部时间上午9:35 / CBS新闻
当凯莎·兰斯·博茨在明年1月就任佐治亚州州长时，她将成为美国首位担任该职务的黑人女性。不过这个消息来得可能比她自己预想的还要早。
博茨在接受《CBS今晨》联合主持人盖尔·金采访时表示，她当时正试图避开选举结果，专心准备演讲稿，直到丈夫用肢体动作把她的注意力引向电视屏幕。
“我戴上了AirPods准备写演讲稿，当时我丈夫就躺在我旁边的沙发上，他碰了碰我，”亚特兰大前市长博茨说道，“我问：‘干什么？’他说：‘宣布结果了。’我又问：‘宣布什么了？’我就是这样得知结果的。紧接着我儿子朗斯顿冲进房间，扑到我身上。”
这次选举结果公布得相当迅速。美国东部时间晚上7点投票结束后不久，佐治亚州现任参议员乔恩·奥索夫就被预测赢得选举，成为全国最早出结果的州之一。CBS新闻在当晚9点30分就公布了博茨的胜选结果。
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当选佐治亚州州长凯莎·兰斯·博茨于2026年11月3日在亚特兰大万豪侯爵酒店举行的选举夜观礼会上发表讲话。梅根·瓦纳/盖蒂图片社
截至周三上午，计票完成99%，博茨以约36万票的优势击败共和党候选人里克·杰克逊。
“我原以为会是一个非常漫长的夜晚。我知道我们已经付出了努力，但佐治亚州在过去几年一直是摇摆州，所以我本以为结果会接近得多，”她说道。
但现在她需要着手推进自己的议程，取代自2019年以来一直担任该职务的共和党州长布莱恩·坎普。她表示自己的首要任务与生活成本和教育相关。
“我的首要任务是解决我在全州听到的生活成本问题，”博茨说道，“我希望允许地方政府暂停或取消食品杂货税，同时扩大医疗补助计划、为佐治亚州的学前教育提供全额资金支持，而为教育提供全额资金将是首份预算中的重点。”
博茨不仅会成为美国历史上首位黑人女性州长，她还将是佐治亚州首位女性州长，也是全国17位女性州长中的一员，这一数字创下历史新高。
“听到这个数字我很惊讶。我之前没想到会有17位，”博茨说道，“现在有一批非常出色的女性州长。我听说（密歇根州）州长格雷琴·惠特默说过，叫约翰的州长比女性州长还多，我不知道这个记录是否仍然成立，但她们确实是一批非常强大的领导者，我很荣幸如今能跻身其中。”
Keisha Lance Bottoms surprised by lopsided win in Georgia governor’s race: “I thought it could be much closer”
November 4, 2026 / 9:35 AM EST / CBS News
When Keisha Lance Bottoms takes over the Georgia governor’s office in January, she’ll be the first Black woman in the U.S. to ever hold the office. But you might’ve found out sooner than she did.
Bottoms told “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King she was trying to tune out the results and work on her speech when her husband had to physically draw her attention to the TV screen.
“I had put in my AirPods to work on my speech, and my husband was on the sofa near me, laying near me, and he kicked me,” said Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta. “I went like, ‘What?’ He said, ‘They called it.’ And I said, ‘Called what?’ And so that’s how I knew. Then my son Langston ran in the room and jumped on top of me almost.”
The race was called fairly quickly. Georgia incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff was projected to win the race not long after polls closed at 7 p.m. ET, one of the first in the country. CBS News projected Bottoms’ race by 9:30 p.m.
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Georgia Gov.-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms speaks during an election night watch party at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis on Nov. 3, 2026, in Atlanta. Megan Varner/Getty Images
With 99% of the vote in Wednesday morning, Bottoms was beating Republican candidate Rick Jackson by about 360,000 votes.
“I thought that it was going to be a very long night. I knew that we had done the work, but Georgia has always — for the past few years — been a purple state, so I thought it could be much closer,” she said.
But now she will have to get to work on her agenda after Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who has held the office since 2019, steps away. She said her first priorities are related to the cost of living and education.
“My priority will be to address these cost-of-living issues that I’ve heard around the state,” Bottoms said. “I want to allow local governments to suspend or end our grocery tax and also expanding Medicaid and fully funding pre-K in Georgia, and fully funding education will be a priority in that first budget.”
Not only will Bottoms become the first Black female governor in U.S. history, she’ll be Georgia’s first female governor and one of 17 women in governor’s offices nationwide, a new record high.
“That is an amazing number to hear. I didn’t realize that it was 17,” Bottoms said. “There is such an incredible group of women governors right now. I’ve heard (Michigan) Gov. (Gretchen) Whitmer say there have been more governors named John than women, so I don’t know if that record still stands, but they are an incredibly strong group of leaders, and I’m grateful to now be counted in the number.”
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