Name recognition across Georgia helped former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms outpace her Democratic rivals to win the party’s nomination for governor Tuesday. The magnitude of the moment wasn’t lost on Bottoms when she took the stage around 11 p.m. with her husband and four children. She appeared to get choked up multiple times during […]
Chauncey Alcorn
Chauncey Alcorn is Capital B Atlanta's state and local politics reporter.
Posted inElections, Politics & Policy
Georgia 2026 Election Results: The Winners, Upsets, and Runoffs
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms outran her rivals and avoided a runoff to win the Democratic Party’s nomination for Georgia governor Tuesday. Bottoms gained more than 56% of unofficial votes cast in the race by 10:18 a.m., Wednesday, with 99% of votes counted in the race, according to the Associated Press. Former state Sen. Jason […]
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Black Voting Power Faces New Threat in Georgia Redistricting Efforts
A Republican effort to effectively weaken Black voting power in Georgia has Democratic state lawmakers worried about the future of Black representation in the General Assembly. Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday made Georgia the latest Republican-led state to announce it will redraw its political maps in response to the April 29 U.S. Supreme Court ruling […]
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How Keisha Lance Bottoms Plans to Veto Maps That Dilute Black Voting Power
Keisha Lance Bottoms is vowing to veto any redrawn political district maps that intentionally target and weaken the voting power of Black Georgians if she’s elected governor in November. Her remarks were in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s April 29 decision that said that political maps drawn based on race are unconstitutional. The Supreme […]
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Fulton Commission Chair Candidates Trade Jabs in ‘Jeopardy!’-Themed Event
Candidates competing to become the next chair of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners showcased their knowledge of government operations and issues affecting their constituents on Wednesday during a Jeopardy!-styled event. Incumbent Chair Robb Pitts and two would-be successors — Commissioners Mo Ivory and Marvin Arrington Jr. — showed up for the forum. The event […]
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Black Faith Leaders Sound Alarm Over Gutting of Voting Rights Act
The Rev. Timothy McDonald was a 10-year-old fifth-grader at Perry Elementary School in Brunswick, Georgia, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act into law. Prior to its passage, election officials in the South routinely used blatant discriminatory practices like jelly bean counts and literacy tests to deny Black voters access to […]
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Eviction-Plagued Trailer Park Investigated by Clayton County Officials
Maintenance workers haven’t finished patching the huge hole in Ana Ivory’s ceiling yet, but the married mother of four said they’ve been in and out of her family’s trailer park home almost daily since a picture of the problem was featured in a Capital B Atlanta story in April. Ivory, 45, said previously that management […]
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Georgia AG Candidate’s Plan to Lower Rent, Grocery Bills, and Battle Trump’s Policies
Prosecuting violent criminals, gang members, and human traffickers has been the mission of Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr over the past 10 years. But candidate Tanya Miller said she wants to use the office to improve affordability and push back against President Donald Trump’s policies. The cuts to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban […]
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Keisha Lance Bottoms Targeted in Attack Ad by Republican Billionaire
Rick Jackson hasn’t closed the deal yet in his bid to become the successor to Gov. Brian Kemp, but he’s already set his general election sights on Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms. The Republican gubernatorial candidate questions the former Atlanta mayor’s decision to rein in aggressive police tactics in the wake of the police killing of […]
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Trailer Park Tenants Accuse Owner of Evictions Scam and Abuse
Ciara Daniel thought someone was breaking into her family’s home when her 12-year-old son, Charles, woke her up in a panic. “He woke up screaming, holding his ears, shaking his head,” the single mother of two recalled when Capital B Atlanta visited her three-bedroom trailer at the Hunter Ridge Mobile Home Park in Irondale. In reality, […]