After recent high-profile battles with President Donald Trump, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is getting new shine as a potential vice president on the Democratic ticket, according to Business Insider.

Roundups of potential vice presidential picks haven’t included Bowser in the past, but a former aide to Vice President Al Gore was one of the Democratic operatives that told the outlet that D.C.’s mayor should definitely be considered: “A strong talented big city mayor who’s now navigated these issues in recent days, those are people I’d assume the Biden team would take a look at.” Generally, elected officials from the District aren’t seen as big contenders for the role, because the city carries a mere three electoral college votes and is already deeply Democratic. But Bowser has become a figure with a more prominent national profile of late.

Trump began attacking Bowser the day after protests began in the nation’s capital, prompted by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and demonstrators scuffled with law enforcement outside the White House. Trump tweeted incorrectly on May 30 that Bowser wouldn’t let D.C. police respond to the demonstration, and went on to personally assail her and deride the protesters. Typically restrained in her comments about the president, Bowser employed fiery rhetoric in response. She said that “these comments are an attack on humanity and they are an attack on black America, and they make my city less safe. What used to be dog whistles, we now hear from a bullhorn.”

Since then, the two have continued to disagree publicly about how D.C. should handle the protests. Trump deployed a series of federal law enforcement agencies and military units into the city a week ago after calling damage to storefronts and graffiti after a night of unrest “a total disgrace.” Bowser said the clearing of peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square that evening by federal police was “Shameful!” and requested on June 4 that Trump withdraw all “extraordinary federal law enforcement and military presence” from the city. (She also took the opportunity to point out that Trump was able to deploy these troops because D.C. lacked statehood.)

Then, Bowser responded with street art—painting “Black Lives Matter” in 35-foot yellow letters blocks on 16th Street NW, just north of the White House. While some activists dismissed the mural as “performative,” the Trump administration saw that move as a “serious escalation” of the tensions between the president and mayor, the Washington Post reported. This back-and-forth has led to increased national media presence for Bowser.

“Challenges like these test elected officials, and Mayor Bowser’s ability to go toe-to-toe with the president, particularly her savvy move to paint the mural, has elevated her national profile, thrust her into the national spotlight and started the vice presidential chatter,” Scott Mulhauser, a former deputy chief of staff for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden when he was vice president, told Business Insider.

And it’s not just Bowser’s ongoing conflict with Trump that has Democratic party operatives increasingly interested in seeing her in the veepstakes—the outlet reports that the 47-year-old mayor’s personal background, like being a single mother, is also appealing. Biden has already pledged that he will choose a woman as vice president, and many activists have called on him to choose a woman of color—Bowser is black.

However, Bowser came out hard for a candidate during the primaries, and it wasn’t Biden. She traveled around the country as a high-profile surrogate and national campaign co-chair for former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, and defended his controversial record on stop and frisk. After Bloomberg dropped out, she endorsed Biden.

Bowser is not currently being vetted by the Biden campaign, according to spokesperson Susana Castillo, a fact first reported by Fenit Nirappil of the Washington Post. Bowser generally answers questions about whether she has ambitions for higher office the same way. “I have the best job in Washington, D.C. I’m the mayor of my hometown,” she told DCist in February in typical fashion.

Business Insider also quoted a series of residents who were less than enthusiastic about the notion of Bowser as vice president, quoting one person who said, “I think that’s insane.”

In 2018, Bowser was the first D.C. mayor to win a second term since 2002, and the first woman mayor ever to be reelected in the city’s history. However, she did not face stiff competition in the race. Bowser has a 67% approval rating among District residents, according to a Post poll from November 2019, but most of that support is considered “soft”—48% “somewhat” approved of the job she was doing, compared to 19% who strongly approved.

Democratic operatives are not the first to float Bowser as a potential to share the ticket with Biden. Rapper Pusha T, who now lives in Bethesda and is a partner in a new H Street NE ramen joint, tweeted that she was a “worthy running mate” on Friday. But the responses to his message were largely negative. One person wrote, in a tweet largely representative of the responses, “You still got time to delete this bro.”

This story has been updated with comment from mayoral spokesperson Susana Castillo.