What Keisha Lance Bottoms plans to do first in Georgia

NPR | By Tyler Bartlam,

Patrick Jarenwattananon, Ailsa Chang

Published November 5, 2026 at 5:26 PM EST

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Keisha Lance Bottoms, the governor-elect of Georgia, about how she hopes to execute her campaign agenda.

Tyler Bartlam

Patrick Jarenwattananon

Host of NPR Music's A Blog Supreme

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Ailsa Chang

Ailsa Chang is an award-winning journalist and a host of NPR’s newsmagazine All Things Considered, as well as NPR’s daily news podcast Consider This.

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