Voters across the United States delivered a series of historic results on Tuesday, electing four Black candidates to governorships in a single night. Among them was the first Black woman ever chosen for a governor's office, while in Nevada, Democrat Aaron Ford held a lead of more than 70,000 votes in a race that had yet to be decided.

In Georgia, Democrat Bottoms, a former Atlanta mayor, claimed a groundbreaking victory. She will be the first Black woman elected to a gubernatorial position in U.S. history, and also the first woman to serve as governor of Georgia. Her win adds to a record-high total of 17 women who will hold governor's offices nationwide.

Bottoms told co-host Gayle King on Wednesday that she had been trying to tune out the results when she learned she had won. "I had put in my AirPods to work on my speech, and my husband was on the sofa near me, laying near me, and he kicked me," she said. "I went like, 'What?' He said, 'They called it.' And I said, 'Called what?' And so that's how I knew."

In Florida, Republican Byron Donalds is set to become that state's first Black governor. Donalds has served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 19th District since winning election to the seat in 2020.

Wisconsin voters elected Crowley, a moderate Democrat, who defeated Republican challenger Tom Tiffany. The race played out in one of the country's most purple states, and Tiffany, a U.S. representative, is one of President Trump's top allies.

In Maryland, Democrat Moore was reelected to a second term as governor. He first won the office in 2022, becoming the state's first Black governor. Including Moore, only three Black Americans had previously been elected as U.S. governors, and former New York Gov. David Paterson, who is also Black, became governor when Eliot Spitzer resigned in 2008.

Moore reflected on the night's results to CBS News on Tuesday, calling the victories "incredibly important." "This is exciting, because up until this moment, I was the only Black governor in America. And I was very clear that that's a title that I did not want to hold onto for very long," Moore said. "I'm only the third African American ever elected governor in the 250-year history of this country, and, now, in one cycle, we have at least doubled that number. I just think it's incredibly important. It's a historic moment."

Attention now turns to Nevada, where the contest between Ford and Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo remains a toss-up, CBS News estimates. Ford, who was elected as Nevada's attorney general in 2018, would become the state's first Black governor if he prevails. He would also be the first Black governor ever elected west of the Mississippi.