“I’m kind of afraid that he’s going to mess everything up,” longtime GOP activist Allen Wilson said of Elder.

The scandal around Elder, whose campaign did not respond to requests for comment for this article, landed last week when Politico interviewed Alexandra Datig, an ex-fiancée who said Elder displayed a gun during an altercation.

CNN followed up with a report detailing his controversial remarks about women, including him once saying that “women exaggerate the problem of sexism.”

Datig Wednesday ramped up the pressure, filing a formal complaint with the Los Angeles Police Department over “several incidents of domestic violence,” including when he allegedly brandished his gun,.