Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is refusing take sides in the latest dust-up between his party's presidential nominee and the state's junior senator.

It started with Jeff Flake on weekend talk shows saying he still cannot back Donald Trump. Flake is also calling what Trump said in Phoenix about his immigration policy "just confusing."

Trump responded with a pair of tweets, calling Flake as "weak and ineffective." Ducey on Tuesday steered a wide path around the very public political smashup.

The Republican Party needs strong and committed leaders, not weak people such as @JeffFlake, if it is going to stop illegal immigration.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2016

The Republican Party needs strong and committed leaders, not weak people such as @JeffFlake, if it is going to stop illegal immigration.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2016

"We're going to let the campaign play out. We'll know in the next 60-plus days who the next president is. But you know where my support is," Ducey said.

Ducey's support is with Trump, and the governor suggested that it would be difficult for the GOP nominee to lose his support.

"I've compared him with the Democratic nominee of Hillary Clinton, the things that are important to me, like a Supreme Court justice, like real change in Washington, D.C., like respect for our law enforcement community and men and women in uniform," said Ducey. "That's why I am supportive of Donald Trump and the Republican ticket."

The war of words continued Tuesday as Flake said Trump will "say terrible things about women, mock the disabled, disparage minorities, impugn the character of POWs, and go after the parents of a fallen U.S. soldier." And Flake said if the candidate doesn't change his rhetoric that Republicans will lose a lot more than the presidential election in November.