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FOX 5 Atlanta centers Penny Brown Reynolds's reflections on the sacrifices behind her secretary of state victory.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 52,046 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (4,108).
Eight Black women shatter records after sweeping state | FOX 5 News
Penny Brown Reynolds looks beyond her own campaign when she considers what her election means. "I think about our ancestors and, you know, all the price that they paid," Georgia's secretary of state-elect tells FOX 5 Atlanta.
She is among at least eight Black women elected to statewide executive office in Georgia on Tuesday, alongside Governor-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms and Attorney General-elect Tanya Miller. Bottoms previously served as Atlanta's mayor; this result takes her from city leadership to the governor's office.
Reporter Christopher King's package focuses on Brown Reynolds, a former Fulton County judge who also served in the Agriculture Department under Joe Biden. Her emotional reflections sit beside a plain acknowledgment of the responsibility ahead: "It's a big task, and I have to be ready for it."
Alicia Hughes, associate dean at John Marshall Law School, interprets the victories as a sign of shared principles extending beyond race. She also credits Stacey Abrams and Kamala Harris with helping pave the way.
The report drew about 52,000 views in its first day, roughly thirteen times the channel's usual opening for Shorts. Its closing detail turns from the significance of winning office to the work awaiting Brown Reynolds: overseeing Georgia's new election system.
Georgia’s secretary of state-elect and the first woman and African American elected to that office. A former Fulton County judge, she also held senior civil rights roles in the Agriculture Department under Biden.
More on Wikipedia ›A Democratic politician and Georgia’s governor-elect. She served as Atlanta’s mayor from 2018 to 2022, after eight years on the city council.
More on Wikipedia ›A Democratic prosecutor and politician who has represented District 62 in the Georgia House of Representatives since January 2023.
More on Wikipedia ›A Democratic politician and voting rights activist who formerly led the minority in Georgia’s House of Representatives. She founded Fair Fight Action in 2018 to combat voter suppression.
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- Channel
- FOX 5 Atlanta
- Subscribers
- 721,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,365,170
- Channel views, pace per day
- 251,470 (on a normal day: 274,855)
- Video published
- November 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 51,859 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 52,046
The numbers
This election report reached a much larger first-day audience than FOX 5 Atlanta's usual Short, with an unusually busy comment section too.
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Which city did Georgia Governor-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms previously lead as mayor?
Bottoms served as mayor of Atlanta from 2018 to 2022.