In a Monday afternoon call with several high-ranking Republicans, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus doubled down on his support of Donald Trump, refuting reports that he had planned to punish his party’s nominee for his 2005 remarks on sexually assaulting women.

“Nothing has changed in terms of our support for the nominee,” Priebus told the committee members on the call, according to Politico.

In the hours after The Washington Post published audio of Trump boasting about the things he could get away with as a celebrity, including the ability to assault women, reports swirled that Priebus had directed the committee to divert funds from the Trump campaign, and direct them towards vulnerable congressional races—and, in an unprecedented move, attempt to drive Hillary Clinton voters to choose G.O.P. candidates on the ballot.

The R.N.C. chief categorically denied the rumors, saying that “we are in full coordination with the Trump campaign,” and added that he had accepted Trump’s “heartfelt” apology. “I think the issue was taken care of at the debate,” he said, referring to Trump’s performance at the town hall debate on Sunday evening. Though Trump was, as ever, light on specifics, some conservative observers were soothed by his ability to somehow move past the vulgar audiotape. Priebus also reportedly said the party would not attempt to remove Trump from the ticket, saying that “no mechanism exists” to pull the winning candidate from the ballot.

The debate performance may have saved Trump’s hide, temporarily stemming the flow of Republican officials defecting from his campaign. Rumors swirled that Mike Pence, Trump’s running mate, considered leaving the ticket due to the remarks, but the pair quickly mended their relationship after the debate. Priebus, too, had condemned the remarks when they first came out, but said that he had kept quiet over the weekend to avoid drawing attention to the widening rift in the G.O.P, and to allow Trump to “address voters directly w/o a lot of cross talk.”

Priebus’s comments come just hours after his Congressional counterpart, House Speaker Paul Ryan, told Republican members of Congress that he “won’t defend Trump” in the future, and urged his fellow members to do what was best for their districts. After hearing the tape, Ryan had previously and promptly disinvited Trump from a campaign rally where they were supposed to appear together.

It also came hours after the Trump campaign accused the Republican establishment of disloyalty towards them and their movement, with spokeswoman Katrina Pierson tweeting (without substantiation) that she had been in contact with Trump supporters who wouldn’t vote Republican in the crucial down-ticket races.

All of the above, put simply: it remains a sad time to be Reince Priebus.