Trump was caught on a hot microphone making disparaging and sexually aggressive comments about women in 2005. | AP Photo President of college Republicans disavows Trump

The head of the national College Republicans on Saturday joined a growing chorus of conservatives denouncing Donald Trump’s candidacy, as revelations that he had bragged about groping women in 2005 threaten the GOP nominee's presidential run.

“The Party of Lincoln is not a locker room, and there is no place for people who think it is,” Alex Smith, the national chair of the College Republicans, wrote on Twitter Saturday morning. “Definitely not with her, but not with him.”


Also on Saturday morning, the College Republicans’ official Twitter account shared a statement from the Republican National Committee chairman, Reince Priebus, condemning Trump’s comments: “No woman should ever be described in these terms or talked about in this manner. Ever.”

Trump’s candidacy, already widely controversial because of his long history of making inflammatory comments about women and groups including Muslims and Mexican immigrants, had divided college Republican groups even before the Post published the explosive video footage on Friday. Some campus Republican clubs, like those at Harvard and Penn State University, had refused to endorse the party’s nominee; after Yale’s group did endorse him, half its executive board quit and created a new conservative club in protest.

Trump was caught on a hot microphone making disparaging and sexually aggressive comments about women in 2005. The Washington Post published leaked audio and video of the comments on Friday afternoon, prompting widespread panic within his campaign and the Republican Party, as some lawmakers went so far as to call for him to drop out of the race to make way for his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, to be the party's nominee.

Trump initially released a statement apologizing for offending anyone by the comments, which he dismissed as “locker room banter.” Early Saturday morning he formally apologized for making the statements in a short video statement filmed from Trump Tower in New York.