Vice President Joe Biden will headline the Iowa Democratic Party’s Jefferson-Jackson fundraising dinner, the Democrats announced today.

U.S. Sen. Joe Biden“We are absolutely thrilled to have the Vice President back in Iowa,” said party chair Michael Kiernan in a statement.

The event will take place Saturday, November 21, in Des Moines. It is typically the party’s largest fundraiser of the year.

The last time Biden spoke at a “JJ” dinner in Iowa was in 2007, in the lead-up to the 2008 Iowa Caucuses, when he was still a presidential candidate. That year, he claimed on stage that then-Sen. Barack Obama had bused in many of his supporters from Chicago, a claim that could not be verified. Times have obviously changed since then.

Here’s a short video from Biden’s 2007 speech: