House Speaker Paul Ryan continued his impressive political tightrope walk Monday, reportedly telling a group of leading Republicans that he would no longer defend Donald Trump without formally rescinding his endorsement of the GOP nominee for president.

"He will spend his entire energy making sure that Hillary Clinton does not get a blank check with a Democrat-controlled Congress", said another person who listened to the conference call, according to the report.

Many Republican members of Congress are concerned that Trump's chaotic campaign could ruin their chances of holding their majorities in the House and Senate and could inflict long-term damage to the party.

Candidates for federal offices representing IN - including Republican Trey Hollingsworth IN the 9th Congressional District and U.S. Rep. Todd Young IN the U.S. Senate race - have criticized the comments from the tape released Friday by the Washington Post.

Questions about Pence swirled after the release of a Washington Post story featuring lewd and sexually aggressive comments Trump made in 2005 about groping women that were caught on a hot mic.

For instance Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., said on Friday that Trump's leaked 2005 remarks about grabbing women's genitals were "disgusting and totally unacceptable".

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Trump has heralded unscientific online reader polls on news websites that showed him winning Sunday's second presidential debate.

Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence emerged Monday after a weekend out of the public eye reaffirming his relationship - awkward as it seemed - with Donald Trump.

Trump sent a tweet Sunday after a growing list of elected Republican officials have called on him to abandon his presidential campaign. There simply aren't enough Hillary Clinton voters who will cross party lines and vote for Republicans to make up for a 10-point Trump loss.

Almost half of all 332 incumbent Republican senators, congress members and governors have condemned Mr Trump's remarks, and roughly 1 in 10 have called on him to drop out of the race, according to a Reuters review of official statements and local news coverage.

Trump and Ryan were originally set to appear together in Wisconsin on Saturday. "And I think the way she had framed that was to suggest that I had implied we ought to use military power to achieve regime change and I had simply never said that", he said, referring to moderator Martha Raddatz. "The fact of the matter is the vast majority of Republicans support Donald Trump and still support Donald Trump". "But as I say, they can run, they can't hide".

A source said Ryan would campaign in 17 states and 42 cities this month.