National Chairman Reince Priebus of the Republican Party told Donald Trump last week over the phone that Trump has a week to turn his dying campaign around before the national party will shift all their resources and focus from Trump to the races down-ballot. This is according to two GOP officials who were briefed on the phone call.

Priebus told Trump that all the internal party polls show Trump’s campaign headed in a wrong direction. Trump was also told he might be better off if he spent several days at his Mar-a-Lago Club.

Trump denied the officials’ account of the call.

“Reince Priebus is a terrific guy,” Trump told TIME. “He never said that.” Trump also said that the Republican Party needs to be more grateful for his recent fundraising. “Why would they state that when I am raising millions of dollars for them?” Trump wondered aloud.

Whatever the exact words spoken on the phone, there is no doubt that the Republicans may effectively abandon Trump by prioritizing voter outreach for down-ballot races.

In the last two weeks, Trump has suffered a deep dive in public polls with a number of controversies caused by his own public statements.

Priebus and Trump talk frequently, with the party chair urging Trump for months to professionalize his operations and campaign. But the calls turned more frank and frustrated last week as Trump’s campaign slide continued. The officials said Priebus reminded Trump that his title is RNC chairman, not chairman of the Trump campaign, and that he needs to act in the best interests of the Republican Party.

With early voting beginning in mid-September, Priebus told Trump he doesn’t have much time to reverse his polling slide, the officials said. Priebus once again make a longstanding plea for Trump to stay on message—a goal that remained elusive more than a week after Trump’s economic speech was drowned out by comments viewed by critics as promoting political violence.

Actually his economic speech was also drowned out by the Democratic Party as Clinton mentioned Trump’s speech at every stop or rally for the rest of the week. The Clinton campaign is running an excellent campaign and are just letting Trump’ campaign explode in on itself.