The fiery showdown between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Sunday night was filled with low blows, accusations, insults and interruptions.

The Director of the Texas Politics Project, Jim Henson said the debate was a wash but with 29 days until Election Day, he said it will be difficult for Trump to pull off a win.

Henson said Trump has essentially broken away from  the leadership of his party. “He will be going forward with greatly reduced support from other candidates who are now going to be running in the opposite direction from him in large numbers,” Henson said.

On Monday, House Speaker Paul Ryan told fellow Republicans he will no longer defend Trump. According to his spokesperson, Ryan will instead focus on preserving the GOP’s hold on Congress.  

In response, Trump tweeted that Ryan should “spend more time balancing the budget, jobs and illegal immigration” …and “not waste his time fighting.”

Ryan is just one more name to add to the growing list of Republicans who are distancing themselves from the party’s nominee.

Henson said, “There is a real gap between Donald Trump and the hard core of his support and the mainstream of the Republican Party.”

Released Friday, Trump made lewd and sexually aggressive comments toward women in a leaked audio clip from 2005.  

Henson said that 11-year-old footage deepened the divide among Republicans and “made it, for a lot of people, completely uncrossable now,” Henson said.  

Trump’s lewd comments about women dominated the first 30 minutes of the debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. 

He repeatedly referred to the 2005 recording as “locker room talk.” Trump apologized for the comments and said, “Yes, I’m very embarrassed about it.  I hate it. But it’s locker room talk and it’s one of those things.”

Henson said Trump’s approach doubled down on his existing supporters but did not expand the Republican’s voter base.

Henson thought Trump was “relatively unapologetic” about the recently leaked recording, “and he didn’t back off of any of the other positions that have limited his appeal to ethnic minorities, to women, and to college educated voters.”

Trump painted Clinton as a political insider who is ‘all talk and no action’ while Clinton attacked Trump’s temperament.

Clinton said, “It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.”

Trump replied, “Because you’d be in jail.”

If elected, Trump said he would bring in a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton and her deleted emails.

Henson said Clinton’s emails should be questioned but he believes Trump’s comment was “very much at odds with the nature of political competition in the United States and it troubles people and it should.”

Trump is scheduled to visit San Antonio for a private fundraiser Tuesday, which is also the last day to register to vote in the state.

“It’s unlikely to change the trajectory of a race that’s really already taken a pretty ominous turn for Donald Trump and the Republican Party,” Henson said. 

Governor Greg Abbott wrote in a tweet Saturday, “Deeply disturbing rhetoric by Trump. An insult to all women & contrary to GOP values. Absent true contrition, consequences will be dire.”

Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, who serves as the chair of the Trump campaign in Texas, also condemned Trump’s comments. “But we can’t let this firestorm distract voters from the frightening policies revealed today in the WikiLeaks of Hillary’s emails, including her ‘dream’ of ‘open trade and open borders,’ which would spell ruin for the future of our country,” Patrick said in a statement released Friday.