Voters share hopes as Georgia turns blue

At Cutting Kings Barber Shop in Fayette County Wednesday, customer Omar Lawrence says he and his wife had a late Tuesday night.

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“When she woke up, I said ‘I didn’t want to wake you. But you woke up at the right time. She won,’” Lawrence told Channel 2’s Berndt Petersen.

Georgia’s Governor-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms is the first Black woman elected governor in the U.S. It’s part of the blue wave across the nation and here at home.

Barber Everton Thompson says he believes some voters were as much for Bottoms as they were against the president and the war in the Middle East.

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“When the energy price goes up, food prices go up. Everything goes up. People are just upset,” Thompson said.

In the Peach State, Democrats flipped several counties from red to blue. Lawrence says he hopes the new governor will make things better for red and blue.

“And we’re gonna see what she is able to do for us, not just if you’re a Republican or a Democrat, but for the entire state of Georgia,” Lawrence said.

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