At a fundraiser with donors last week, President Trump declared that he would help some republican Senate candidates because he’d lose his soul if he did–whatever soul he has–signalling that republicans were abandoning hope of holding on to the Senate.

“I think the Senate is tough actually. The Senate is very tough,” Trump said at a fundraiser Thursday at the Nashville Marriott, the Washington Post reported.  “There are a couple senators I can’t really get involved in. I just can’t do it. You lose your soul if you do. I can’t help some of them. I don’t want to help some of them.”

Now, campaign officials are trying to backtrack from yet another Trump declaration, saying that they are still enthusiastic about republican chances to maintain a majority in Congress’s upper chamber, Politico reports.

“Obviously, this president wants to make sure that, in addition to his reelection, we’re retaining the majority in the US Senate and we’re taking back the House of Representatives,” senior campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

On Sunday, Trump plans to travel to Maine, the home state of embattled republican Senator Susan Collins, to campaign for his reelection.  Collins has not reported a specific level of concern over the incumbent republican presidential nominee coming to her state, particularly because she’s been trying to distance herself from him, physically and politically.

Trump is making the trip to Maine in the hopes of securing the 2nd Congressional District Electoral College vote.  Maine allocates Electoral College delegates based on House seats, not statewide.