LANSING, Mich. Vice President Kamala Harris is coming back to Michigan on Friday in yet another bid to show that shes the presidential candidate who will fight for the American auto industry and its workers .

But this time shell make her case in the shadow of a factory whose future might literally depend on what happens in the election.

As part of a daylong trek across the state, Harris plans to speak at an invitation-only event in Lansing , which is home to a sprawling General Motors assembly plant just south of downtown.

GM plans to overhaul the factory, in order to produce electric vehicles, using a $500 million federal grant it won in July. The company has said that the transformation will save more than 650 unionized jobs that it might otherwise have to cut, and add 50 new ones.

The grant will come through a Department of Energy program created by the Inflation Reduction Act, the sweeping clean energy and health care legislation that Democrats passed and President Joe Biden signed in 2022.

It is also part of a broader Democratic Party effort to support and encourage the production of electric vehicles (EVs) on the theory that such support will allow American automakers to stay competitive as demand for EVs increases both here and abroad.