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President Obama plans to tout the Detroit auto workers bailout the same day Republicans plan to vote in the Michigan presidential primary.

"On Tuesday, the president will speak at the annual UAW â€"United Auto Workersâ€" community action program conference," White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Friday. "At the conference the president will discuss the steps we must take to build an economy that will last."

Earnest also said Obama plans to highlight the auto bailout.

"He will discuss the steps we took to get our economy back on track, including saving the American auto industry, which has created approximately 200,000 new jobs since the spring of 2009,” Earnest added.

As Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum campaigned in Michigan ahead of the primary both have stressed their opposition to the bailouts. Democrats have tried to capitalize on their opposition by charging that both candidates wanted the auto industry ! to fail.

Rick Santorum has worked to paint Romney as hypocritical for supporting the Wall Street bailout but opposing the auto bailout. Romney, meanwhile, has been highlighting a 2008 op-ed he wrote for The New York Times called "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" in which he argued that Detroit should go through a normal managed bankruptcy rather than a federal bailout.

On Thursday Obama's reelection campaign joined the Michigan presidential ad wars with t.v. spot accusing the Republican field of turning their back on the Detroit auto workers through opposing the bailouts in 2009.

"Made in America. For generations of Michigan autoworkers it’s more than a slogan; it’! s a way of life," says a voiceover in the ad. "But when a mill! ion jobs were on the line, every Republican candidate turned their back."