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Former President Joe Biden and retired U.S. Senator Larry Pressler meet prior to the McGovern Day Dinner in Sioux Falls. (Courtesy office of retired U.S. Sen. Larry Pressler)

Former President Joe Biden reunited with a South Dakotan colleague from his days in the U.S. Senate this weekend in the Sioux Falls area.

Larry Pressler, a former moderate Republican lawmaker who served on Capitol Hill from 1975–97, visited with Biden, who was in Sioux Falls as a keynote speaker for the South Dakota Democratic Party’s McGovern Day Dinner.