Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms hinted at her next move in politics after President Donald Trump attempted to fire her from the senior advisory position she held under the Biden administration.

Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta who ushered the city through COVID and the George Floyd uprising in May 2020, is heading back to Georgia and back into Georgia politics. Bottoms hinted at a run for the Georgia governor’s office in a recent interview with Jorge Estevez of Atlanta’s WSB-TV.

"We know there are races that will be taking place in the state of Georgia in 2026. I'm paying attention to what those opportunities may be," Bottoms said.

The race for Georgia’s governor will have a Republican and Democrat challenger because Gov. Brian Kemp cannot run for a third term.

Keisha Lance Bottoms clarifies resignation: Atlanta's former mayor announced she resigned from her position on President Biden's Export Council on Jan. 4, one day before President Trump claimed she was fired as part of his removal of over 1,000 Biden-era appointees.

“I said, ‘Oh, he thinks he fired me too from the job that I didn’t get paid for,” Bottoms said about Trump’s post. “I was quite tickled to see one that the Vice President of the United States was thinking about me the day after his inauguration at 1:30 a.m.”

On his first day in the White House for his second term, President Donald Trump announced he’d be removing more than 1,000 appointees from their positions, all hired under the administration of former Pres.