There is no saving Donald Trump. Republicans will keep up their begrudging damage control campaign, of course, as their candidate continues to offend and alienate his way to November. But not even the most seasoned fixer will be able to mend the damage Trump has done to the group of voters he needs most of all: women. Especially when even the women in his own party are loathe to support him.

Earlier this year, a group of female conservative and anti-abortion leaders – including the president of the Susan B Anthony List and the founder of Concerned Women for America – released a letter calling Trump an “unacceptable” choice, urging voters to cast a ballot for anyone else. They wrote that Trump “cannot be trusted” and that they were “disgusted” by his treatment of women.

When he became the nominee, some of these women reluctantly got in line. But there’s a definitive lack of enthusiasm from those groups who are supporting him, and a notable silence from others, like the Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute, which supported Ted Cruz and have nary a mention of Trump on its website.

After all, these are organizations that run campaigns to “bring back the hope chest” and ban the Vagina Monologues on college campuses because of supposed vulgarity. A candidate who brags about his penis size on national television isn’t exactly what they signed up for. An ABC News/Washington Post poll last month found that 77% of women have an unfavorable view of Trump, and in March an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll reported that 47% of Republican women could not imagine themselves voting for him. So far, there are no signs that Trump’s reputation among women is improving.

Hoping for a miracle, the Trump campaign has hired Kellyanne Conway, a pollster best known for her work on female voters and for training Republican men to stop saying stupid things about rape and abortion. (In 2013, Conway counseled party officials that they should consider rape a “four letter word”.) An appropriate addition, considering that a representative of the Independent Women’s Forum has called Trump “Todd Akin on steroids”, a reference to the former Missouri representative who will be forever remembered for his assertion that women can’t get pregnant from “legitimate rape”.

At least Ivanka Trump will finally have some company; being the female-friendly surrogate for a candidate who regularly calls women dogs and mocks their periods has to be exhausting all on her own. She could use a bit of help with strategy as well: her latest claim that her father is a feminist because he has bravely hired women to work for his company elicited eye-rolls so large Betty Friedan saw them from the grave.

Perhaps the biggest problem for Trump is his total unwillingness to repent for past sins. Everyone likes a redemption story, and conservative women have forgiven sexist behavior from men of the GOP before. But it’s hard to imagine Trump, who would rather lie and brag than reflect, showing the least bit of regret for his past treatment of and statements on women.

Without Republican women working en masse and with vigor to support him, it’s unlikely that Trump will close what’s expected to be the largest gender gap in voting history. Hiring a few experts won’t help, nor will a poised and affectionate daughter. Thank goodness.