INTERVIEW: Keisha Lance Bottoms Talks Running For Governor Of Georgia, Black Leadership, Kamala Harris + More
The Breakfast Club
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🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Today on The Breakfast Club, Keisha Lance Bottoms Talks Running For Governor Of Georgia, Black Leadership, Kamala Harris. Listen For More!
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| 1:12.6 | I had a fundraiser in New York and great to see you in person. Absolutely. How many made you want to run for a governor, Georgia, in these crazy times? Yeah, we are living. It's like in the twilight zone right now. I woke up the day after the election in November, like so many people |
| 1:28.1 | wondering what it meant for me personally and just for us as a nation for Georgia as a state. |
| 1:35.9 | And I did a lot of praying, a lot of talking, and then some more praying. And I decided in |
| 1:42.5 | this season to get back in the rain. |
| 1:46.0 | We need strong leadership. |
| 1:46.6 | I agree. And people are looking to states and to local governments to stand in the gap because we've |
| 1:53.2 | got so much craziness and chaos coming out of D.C. right now. |
| 1:57.9 | You know, Stacey Abrams ran for governor twice and she fell short, even with |
| 2:01.8 | massive national attention. What would you do differently? So Georgia, you know, doesn't be like, |
| 2:07.1 | oh, another almost. Well, you know, Charlemagne, one of the first national interviews I did was |
| 2:12.4 | when I was a candidate for mayor and you had me on. And we did it the old-fashioned way. You go knock on doors, |
| 2:19.9 | you call people. Now we've got TikTok and all these other ways that you have to communicate |
| 2:24.7 | with people sitting here. I mean, your audience is massive. We have to cover it all. And what you do, |
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