Former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, a Democrat, mentioned she is contemplating a run to be Georgia’s subsequent governor.
Bottoms, who most not too long ago served within the Biden administration, instructed Fox 5 Atlanta that she is severely considering working within the Georgia gubernatorial election in 2026 however needs to complete some issues she is engaged on first, together with a brand new e-book.
She additionally knocked President Donald Trump, who she believes is already failing to ship on his marketing campaign guarantees, as she eyes a return to public workplace.
BIDEN’S FORMER SENIOR ADVISER KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS REJOINING WHITE HOUSE IN NEW ROLE
Keisha Lance Bottoms speaks a press briefing on the White Home on January 13, 2023, in Washington, D.C. (Getty Pictures)
The previous mayor additional criticized the president for mass deporting unlawful migrants who haven’t dedicated violent crimes.
“I don’t think there are many people who are against people who have violent criminal records being deported if they are in the country illegally,” she mentioned. “When I see the raids, I immediately think of the families that are left behind, and it’s reminiscent of family separation policies that I had to deal with when I was mayor of Atlanta.”
Bottoms resigned earlier this month from the White Home, the place she served on President Joe Biden’s Export Council. Trump claimed on Fact Social that he fired her after he took workplace, however she supplied a letter from Biden thanking her for her service, in response to Fox 5 Atlanta.
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Keisha Lance Bottoms attends the Most cancers Moonshot occasion on October 24, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Getty Pictures)
“I had already resigned. I sent in my resignation letter the first week of January saying it was effective Jan. 20, and it also was an unpaid position,” Bottoms mentioned.
She additionally beforehand served within the Biden administration as senior advisor to the president and director of the White Home Workplace of Public Engagement from July 2022 till April 2023.
KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS ANNOUNCES DEPARTURE FROM WHITE HOUSE ROLE
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Keisha Lance Bottoms in the course of the Bloomberg Equality Summit in New York, on Tuesday, March 22, 2022. (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures)
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Bottoms additionally wished to deal with critics who say she give up her job as Atlanta’s mayor when she determined to not run for re-election in 2021.
“I think people forget that mayors are elected to a four-year term,” she mentioned. “I finished my term. If we want people to serve as mayor for eight years, we should make sure that they are elected to an eight-year term.”