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As Joe Biden travels to Michigan Friday, here are three critical questions he should be asked.

Why should Michigan retreat backward to economic globalism?

Joe Biden has spent nearly a half century in the Washington swamp, and he’s been a true Delaware senator, representing the interests of giant multinational corporations and the prerogatives of foreign governments, to the detriment of American workers, especially heartland industrial workers in places like Michigan. In fact, Biden was a foremost proponent of the disastrous NAFTA agreement in 1994. From the ratification of NAFTA until President Trump’s election, Michigan lost a staggering 210,800 manufacturing jobs. Thankfully, President Trump renegotiated that terrible trade deal and replaced it with the USMCA pact which prioritizes American workers. Joe Biden was also the best friend the tyrants of Beijing could ever ask for in Washington. 

As senator and as vice-president, he aggressively pushed China’s inclusion into the World Trade Organization and enabled the Chinese Communist Party’s systematic abuse of American workers through trade practices that were predatory, not reciprocal, and even outright criminal. According to a study from the Economic Policy Institute, the state of Michigan lost 92,400 jobs due to the disastrous trade structures with China that Biden facilitated. While the Chinese Communist Party plundered American technology and destroyed American manufacturing jobs, Joe Biden had the gall to praise China, saying in 2011 that “a rising China is a positive, positive development, not only for China, but for America.” 

As then-Vice President Biden uttered that Pollyanna nonsense to his Davos-credentialed CEO fanboys, America’s industrial heartland endured devastation. Biden’s own family prospered though, as his wayward son Hunter received millions of dollars from the two most dangerous adversaries of the United States: China and Russia. The recent bombshell Senate Homeland Security Committee report detailed that Hunter collected massive sums from shady operators connected to Putin and the Chinese Communist Party. The Senate committee also provided new evidence that Joe Biden knew about it all as vice-president, and he did nothing to stop Hunter.

Just recently, Joe Biden promised to remove the tariffs that President Trump imposed on Chinese goods, without requiring any accommodation on the part of Beijing. Biden in the White House would send America back to globalism, and back to a position of economic supplication to China. Clearly, Joe Biden prioritizes places like Beijing over places like Battle Creek.

Who is wrong on outdoor masks, Governor Whitmer or Biden? 

Biden recently called for a national policy of universal outdoor mask wearing, for every part of America, for “at least” three months. For Michigan, a citizen fishing in their own boat on Lake St. Clair, by themselves, would have to mask up under Joe Biden’s precepts. Even Governor Gretchen Whitmer, one of the most strident lockdown governors in America, has not mandated universal outdoor mask wearing. So, who is wrong, Whitmer or Biden?  

What would Biden do differently for the automobile business? 

\In recent months, auto manufacturing roars back to life across America, providing huge benefits to the Great Lakes State. The numbers prove this economic renaissance. For instance, consider the surge in car production capacity utilization, which measures the percentage of total possible factory potential is being used. The latest such capacity utilization release for August revealed an astounding 91% rate, the second highest monthly read of this century. This momentum augurs well for Michigan’s future, and major companies make big investments into auto production there. For example, Fiat Chrysler just announced a mammoth $4.5 billion investment into Southeastern Michigan that will create 6,500 jobs. 

Additionally, car sales just recently rose to an all-time high of $110 billion in monthly sales for cars and car parts sales, recouping all the China virus losses, and then some. With this kind of track record of success, why shouldn’t Michigan “rehire” President Trump for America’s CEO position?

– Steve Cortes is Senior Advisor for Strategy to the Trump Campaign.