2024 election updates: Trump, Harris hit more battlegrounds

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson announced Tuesday that he has hired lawyer Jesse Binnall to represent him in what he calls the "outrageous lies" following reporting by CNN that he posted racist and inflammatory comments on a porn site's message board a decade ago.

Binnall is known for his representation of former President Donald Trump, including in legal cases involving Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Binnall still represents Trump in legal matters.

"I am confident that Binnall Law Group will leave no stone unturned and enable us to use every legal means to hold CNN accountable for their lies. In the meantime, my campaign remains laser-focused on the issues at stake in this election," Robinson said in a statement.

Trump’s campaign and political action committees began paying Jesse Binnall’s law firms in November 2020, and they have paid nearly $6 million since.

This includes more than $823,000 paid so far this year by Trump’s Save America PAC and Make America Great Again PAC, which used to be his previous presidential campaign, according to campaign records.

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Former President Donald Trump is celebrating the decision from Independent Sen. Joe Manchin not to endorse Harris over her comments on considering eliminating the filibuster.

Manchin has not said whether or not he will endorse Trump.

"Congratulations to Senator Joe Manchin for not endorsing Radical Kamala Harris because of her DEATH WISH for the Filibuster and the Rule of Law," Trump said in a Truth Social post.

-ABC News' Lalee Ibssa, Soo Rin Kim and Kelsey Walsh

In remarks in battleground Georgia focused on the economy and the tax code, Trump said dealing with immigration is first step in his economic plan.

In Savannah, Trump again said migrants with legal protected status in Springfield, Ohio, need to be deported and repeated his discriminatory and false argument that undocumented immigrants were stealing jobs from Black and Hispanic communities. He went on to call on local officials to "move the people back to the country from which they came."

Trump spent much of his speech focused on increasing domestic production by tariffing other countries, telling Georgians they soon would be "stealing" jobs from other countries.

"Vote for Trump, and you will see a mass exodus of manufacturing from China to Pennsylvania, from Korea to North Carolina, from Germany to right here in Georgia, they're going to come to Georgia, from Germany and a lot of other places," he claimed.

"I'm outlining today, not only will we stop our businesses from leaving for foreign lands, but under my leadership, we're going to take other countries' jobs. Did you ever hear that expression before? Have you ever heard that? 'We're going to take other countries' jobs.' It's never been stated before. We're going to take their factories," Trump claimed.

The former president also touched on Ukraine, just hours after President Joe Biden urged world leaders gathered at the United Nations General Assembly to never "waver" in support for Ukraine.

"I think that we're stuck in that war unless I'm president. I'll get it done. I'll get it negotiated," Trump claimed -- a campaign pledge he often repeats but offers no specifics on how to accomplish.

Trump then seemingly praised Russia.

"That's what they do, is they fight wars," he said. "As somebody told me the other day, they beat Hitler, they beat Napoleon. That's what they do. They fight and it's not pleasant."

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Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen released a statement Tuesday confirming he has "no plans" to call a special session before the November general election -- meaning that the Republican-led effort to change the state electoral college to winner-take-all is tabled, for now.

"My team and I have worked relentlessly to secure a filibuster-proof 33-vote majority to get winner-take-all passed before the November election," Pillen said. "Given everything at stake for Nebraska and our country, we have left every inch on the field to get this done."

"Unfortunately, we could not persuade 33 state senators," he added.

Pillen specifically cited opposition from state Sen. Mike McDonnell, who on Monday said he would not support such a change before the 2024 election.

The switch would have likely benefited Trump and made the electoral map more difficult for Harris.

-ABC News' Brittany Shepherd and Oren Oppenheim