Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms speaks at a press conference on March 17. Megan Varner/Getty ImagesFacing a high-stakes test of her leadership at home, Atlanta Mayor Bottoms stepped into the national spotlight last summer by denouncing vandalism in her city as "chaos" after demonstrations over the death of George Floyd turned violent and destructive. "What I see happening on the streets of Atlanta is not Atlanta. Like other lawmakers facing intrastate tension during the pandemic, Bottoms clashed with the state's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, over coronavirus guidance. Kemp filed a lawsuit against her in July over Atlanta's mask mandate that he said violated his emergency orders prohibiting local action from being more prohibitive than the state's requirements.

Source: CNN May 07, 2021 13:07 UTC