Keisha Lance Bottoms honors enslaved ancestor in Georgia victory speech

WSB-TV's full recording connects her historic gubernatorial win with family history and pledges on Medicaid, education and rural livelihoods.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 78,532 views a day, 19 times a normal first day on this channel (4,120).

LIVE: Keisha Lance Bottoms delivers victory speech after Georgia election win

Keisha Lance Bottoms pauses her victory celebration to remember Betsy Peek, her enslaved great-great-grandmother. Recalling a visit to Crawfordville, Georgia, she gives her own political milestone a much longer history.

"I know I am standing on shoulders made of steel," she tells supporters.

The former Atlanta mayor defeated Republican businessman Rick Jackson to become Georgia's first Black woman governor-elect. WSB-TV's recording of her speech drew roughly 79,000 views in its first day, around nineteen times the station's usual opening-day audience for regular videos.

Her daughter introduces her before Bottoms takes the podium. The speech moves between family thanks and the work she says she intends to do: expand Medicaid, improve healthcare access for veterans, support education and back small business owners and farmers.

Bottoms also says she has spoken with Jackson and thanks him for a hard-fought race. "I will be a governor for all of Georgia," she promises.

For WSB-TV, the story extends beyond the victory stage. A follow-up report visits Frederick Douglass High School, where students are celebrating an alumna's path from their classrooms to the governor's office.

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The numbers

The victory speech reached a much larger first-day audience than WSB-TV's usual regular upload. Its comment section was also substantially busier.

the video's first day

usual first day here

4,120

this video

78,532

subscribers

395,000

▲ 2,000 in the last 7 days

total views

408,043,720

views per day

628,031

typical day: 421,011

the video

views

78,708

likes

1,903

comments

245

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

WCCO - CBS Minnesota

422,000

FOX 13 Seattle

404,000

WSB-TV

395,000

KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco

391,000

CP24

383,000

CBS Boston

377,000

As of November 5, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.