Welcome to the news hour. Both presidential candidates took their campaigns to the

Midwest today, fighting for crucial wins across the so-called blue wall. Vice

President Kamala Harris is in Wisconsin tonight, but we begin in Michigan where

former President Donald Trump gave a familiar and false rallying cry.

Laura Barone Lopez starts our coverage. In Central Michigan this afternoon, Donald Trump was on defense.

You know, last time, last election, we did great in 2016. A lot of people didn't know, we did much better in 2020.

We won, we won, we did one.

There was a rigged election. There's a rigged election.

You have to tell Kamala Harris, that's why I'm doing it again.

The stop in a key battleground state comes one day after a federal judge unsealed a court filing from Special Counsel Jack Smith's case,

charging Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

In 165 pages, prosecutors outline new details about Trump's quote,

increasingly desperate efforts to target every stage of the electoral process.

It also included new FBI evidence that Trump was alone in the Oval Office

dining room when he posted a tweet attacking his then vice president Mike Pence

as rioters stormed the capital on January 6, 2021.

Prosecutors are pointing to that as an example of Trump defending his private political interests, not acting in an official capacity as president.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

On Muse Nation last night, Trump deflected,

accusing Smith without evidence of interfering in the upcoming election.

And he works for Kamala and he works for Joe.

This was a weaponization of government and that's why it was released 30 days before the election.

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