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Keisha Lance Bottoms leaving White House, returns to Atlanta

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By MEG KINNARD
Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden has appointed a former Columbia, South Carolina, mayor to be a top White House adviser. Steve Benjamin will take over the White House Office of Engagement from former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who is returning to Atlanta. Both Georgia and South Carolina have become crucial to the Democratic Party ahead of the 2024 election cycle. South Carolina holds the Democrats’ first nominating contest. Georgia helped solidify the Democrats’ Senate majority during the 2022 midterms and in 2020 gave Biden a rare win in a southern state that hasn’t backed a Democrat for president in 30 years.

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