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Friday, September 11

Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the parking lot outside the United Auto Workers Region 1 offices on September 09, 2020 in Warren, Michigan. Biden is campaigning in Michigan, a state President Donald Trump won in 2016 by less than 11,000 votes, the narrowest margin of victory in state's presidential election history.

OnPolitics: This week Michigan took center stage in the election

Don't look now but the presidential election is almost here. So get caught up on what Trump and Biden said in Michigan.

Trump says Biden will send American jobs overseas

President Donald Trump used a campaign rally in Michigan late Thursday to attack Democratic challenger Joe Biden as a "globalist sellout" who spent his entire career sending American jobs overseas.

"Joe Biden sent your jobs to China," Trump told hundreds of supporters at an airport hangar in Freeland. "I'm running for reelection to keep jobs in Michigan."

Trump traveled to Michigan as polls suggest the presidential race is tightening in the key battleground state.

Meanwhile, Biden wants to tax companies tax leave

Democratic nominee Joe Biden early Wednesday unveiled a plan to tax companies that move work overseas at a higher rate and reward those that bring jobs back into the U.S.

In any other campaign, it would be one direct from the Democratic playbook, but given that Trump has made the same claims a central part of his presidency, it comes as a frontal assault on Trump's economic record in a state the president won by just two-tenths of 1% four years ago.

In a release put out by the campaign, Biden sharply criticized Trump's handling of the economy even before a steep slide caused by the coronavirus pandemic, pointing to reports that manufacturing had entered a recession even before then and that a 2017 tax bill encouraged companies to move jobs overseas.