Black candidates for governor make history with midterm victories
According to reporting by CBS News US National, Americans elected the country's first Black woman, and three other Black candidates, into gubernatorial roles during Tuesday's record midterm races.
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According to reporting by CBS News US National, Americans elected the country's first Black woman, and three other Black candidates, into gubernatorial roles during Tuesday's record midterm races.
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Americans elected their first Black woman into a gubernatorial role during the 2026 midterms , alongside three other Black candidates who won races for governor around the United States on Tuesday. And in Nevada, Democrat Aaron Ford, who is also Black, is leading in the governor's race by more than 70,000 votes.
The races culminated, respectively, in victories for Keisha Lance Bottoms , a Democrat, in Georgia; Byron Donalds, a Republican, in Florida; David Crowley , a Democrat, in Wisconsin; and Wes Moore , a Democrat, was reelected to serve a second term as governor of Maryland. He became the state's first Black governor when he was elected in 2022.
Including Moore, only three Black Americans have previously been elected to serve as U.S. governors. Former New York Gov. David Paterson, who is also Black, became governor when Eliot Spitzer resigned in 2008.
Once Bottoms and Crowley were projected the winners in their races, Moore reflected on their wins to "CBS News" on Tuesday, calling the victories "incredibly important.
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