Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden Friday in the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary, according to Politico. The endorsement comes as Biden is fighting to keep his support with Black voters after he made comments seeming to praise former segregationist senators.

On June 18, at a New York fundraiser, Biden made a comment praising Sen. James O. Eastland, while discussing the need for bipartisanship.

"I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland. He never called me 'boy,' he always called me 'son,'" Biden said in a speech to donors, according to CNN. "Well guess what? At least there was some civility. We got things done. We didn't agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished."

Bottoms, who attended Thursday night's Democratic debate in Miami where Biden's comments sparked a confrontation with California Sen. Kamala Harris, is the latest in a line of Black elected officials to come out in support of Biden.

“The larger context was that you have to work across the aisle with people you don’t like, people you don’t agree with,” Bottoms said. “I do it each and every day as mayor of Atlanta in a red state.”

In an interview with the Associated Press, Bottoms latched on to Georgia Congressman John Lewis' support of the former vice president, saying it was key in her moving past Biden's comments to issue her endorsement.

“My position is, if his explanation was good enough for John Lewis, then it’s good enough for me,” Bottoms said to AP.

The endorsement also comes after Sen. Harris campaigned for Bottoms during her 2017 mayoral race, according to Fox 5. Despite that previous work, Bottoms holds that Biden's ability to defeat Donald Trump is the most important factor in choosing a candidate.

“In 2016, we had a candidate who went limping into the general election,” Bottoms said to the AP. “That would be catastrophic for Democrats to do that going into 2020.”