Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D), an early Biden supporter who was touted as a potential running mate, said Friday she would not seek reelection this year because she no longer had the fight in her heart to continue in the job for another four years.

During a sometimes emotional news conference at City Hall, Bottoms told reporters she had been torn since her early months in office about whether she would seek reelection.

Bottoms added the past year has been an exceptionally difficult time to lead the city, and that it was time to give voters the opportunity to select a new mayor.

2 election — Atlanta City Council President Felicia Moore — and the incumbent mayor’s decision not to seek reelection is likely to attract several more candidates.

Just two weeks after Floyd was killed, Bottoms faced her own police crisis when a White Atlanta police officer fatally shot a 27-year-old Black man, Rayshard Brooks, in the parking lot of a Wendy’s restaurant.

But the decision outraged Atlanta police officers who said they felt abandoned by city leaders.

On Wednesday, Atlanta’s Civil Service Board reversed the decision and reinstated Rolfe, concluding that city leaders had not afforded him due process.

During a recent radio interview, Reed did not mention Bottoms by name, but said the level of crime across the city was “unacceptable.”.

“We’ve had a very challenging year in this city and we are unfortunately not alone,” Bottoms said.

“It is my sincere hope that over the next several months, a candidate for mayor will emerge whom the people of Atlanta may entrust to lead our beloved city to its next and best chapter,” she said