Democratic congressional candidate Patsy Keever in mid-July said that, while she will vote for President Barack Obama, she will not endorse him. 

She became one of a number of North Carolina Democrat congressional candidates who have said they would not be endorsing Obama.

The next day, July 11, after an uproar from her suporters that was publicized in the news media, Keever issued what she termed a clarification of her stance, noting she would endorse the president.

“I  never refused to endorse him” and “of course I endorse the president,” she said on Twitter and Facebook.

Meanwhile, the Asheville Citizen-Times stood by its original story in which it quoted Keever as saying, “I am a Democrat, and I will vote for President Obama, but I’m not willing to hand him, or any president, my vote in Congress.”