Keisha Lance Bottoms Enters General Election With “Unity and a Head Start” While Jackson and Jones Stuck in “Costly Internal Battles”

Keisha Lance Bottoms Enters General Election With “Unity and a Head Start” While Jackson and Jones Stuck in “Costly Internal Battles” 

Reporting from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution this week highlights how Keisha Lance Bottoms is entering the general election with “unity and a head start” while Rick Jackson and Burt Jones “remain in a bruising and deeply expensive primary season.”

“Democratic turnout soared” on Tuesday, which lent itself to a “dominant” victory for Bottoms, who won 158 of Georgia’s 159 counties. She has a “clear mandate from her party to lead,” and four more weeks to drive the message that she’ll make Georgia more affordable, expand Medicaid, support small businesses, and protect Georgians’ rights. That stands in direct contrast to Rick Jackson and Burt Jones, who will spend another month in the nastiest and most expensive primary in modern Georgia history.

Read more below about how Keisha Lance Bottoms is on offense in Georgia: 

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Amid GOP infighting, Democrats lean on unity for an early edge

• As Republicans remain in a bruising and deeply expensive primary season, Democrats are trying to capitalize on something they suddenly have that the GOP doesn’t: unity and a head start.

• The move also underscores an emerging dynamic after Tuesday’s primaries. While Republicans remain locked in costly internal battles for governor and Senate, Democrats are already pivoting toward building turnout and campaign infrastructure for November.

Atlanta Journal Constitution: Big wins, surprises and signals from Georgia’s primary night

• Democratic turnout soared. Democrats led Republicans in early voting and even edged them out on election day, translating frustration into signs of enthusiasm.

• To say Bottoms’ victory was dominant is an understatement. She led her three top rivals in nearly all of Georgia’s 159 counties. And she tallied big gains in metro Atlanta, undercutting critics’ claims that the voters who knew her best were most skeptical of her campaign. She won about 50% of the vote in Fulton County, bested former DeKalb County chief executive Michael Thurmond on his home turf and posted hefty margins in the surrounding suburbs. […] She has a clear mandate from her party to lead, joining U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff atop the ticket.

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