President Joe Biden spoke alongside Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Friday to celebrate the state dropping all coronavirus social distancing and capacity restrictions — despite previously calling on the governor to resign during a 2019 blackface scandal.

“I want to thank you for all you’re doing to win the fight against COVID,” Biden told Northam during an event at a rock-climbing center in Alexandria, 15 miles south of the White House. “You’re one of the best governors in the country at taking this on, and you did it from the beginning.”