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Governor · GA · Democratic candidate · 2026

Keisha Lance Bottoms

Democratic candidate for governor of Georgia

Former Atlanta mayor and White House adviser focused on affordable care, housing, schools, voting rights and household costs.

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StateGeorgia
OfficeGovernor
ElectionNov. 3, 2026

Policy priorities

Where Keisha stands.

Campaign position

Expand Medicaid and rural health services

  • Supports Medicaid expansion and replacing Georgia Pathways
  • Backs rural emergency care, telehealth and prescription-cost oversight

Campaign position

Build affordable homes and speed permitting

  • Supports faster housing permitting and an affordable housing trust fund
  • Backs down-payment and renter assistance

Campaign position

Fund education and strengthen workforce pathways

  • Supports fully funding pre-K and investing in public schools
  • Backs career training and routes to better-paying jobs

Campaign position

Protect voting and reproductive freedom

  • Supports abortion rights and wider early and absentee voting
  • Backs stronger election-worker protections and Election Day as a state holiday

Campaign position

Reduce grocery and essential-goods taxes

  • Supports letting local governments suspend or eliminate sales taxes on groceries and essentials
  • Wants targeted household cost relief

Campaign position

Protect water and reassess data centers

  • Supports reliable water infrastructure and flood mitigation
  • Wants data center growth reassessed to protect resources and utility customers

Record and background

Record & experience.

  1. 2020

    Accomplishment

    Issued police use-of-force reforms

    Issued administrative orders requiring intervention against unreasonable deadly force and tighter reporting and de-escalation policies.

  2. 2018–2022

    Experience

    Mayor of Atlanta

    Led Atlanta’s city government through a term that included the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Experience

    White House senior adviser

    Led the White House Office of Public Engagement under President Biden.

  • Experience

    City councilmember

    Served on the Atlanta City Council before leading city government.

  • Experience

    Municipal judge

    Served as a judge before becoming Atlanta’s mayor.

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