In advance of the Republican debate outside of Detroit tonight, the DNC has released a video targeting Mitt Romney for his position on the auto bailout.

"You wouldn't know he was from around here," the narrator says, before Romney is heard saying, "Let Detroit go bankrupt."

In 2008, Romney advocated refusing GM, Chrysler, and Ford the bailouts they were requesting, an argument he laid out in an op-ed for the New York Times.

"A managed bankruptcy may be the only path to the fundamental restructuring the [American auto] industry needs," he wrote in the piece. "In a managed bankruptcy, the federal government would propel newly competitive and viable automakers, rather than seal their fate with a bailout check."

Herman Cain also brings a Detroit-themed ad to the debate in Michigan tonight. The video intersperses clips of the speech he gave in Detroit last month explaining the "opportunity zone feature" of his 9-9-9 tax plan (which he says would mitigate its impact on poor Americans) with shots of Detroit in various states of abandonment and decay (including one picture of what appears to be an art installation by the street artists Hygienic Dress League that reads "DETROIT REVOLUTION! coming this summer").

"I believe that the American people are saying, loud and clear, that they want to move this shining city on the hill back to the top of the hill where it belongs," Cain says in the ad.

Rick Perry's latest ad titled "Values" touts his humble beginnings.