WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The president’s tweets regarding four congresswomen continue to spark a firestorm, with the U.S. House voting Tuesday to rebuke the president’s remarks.

• The resolution condemning the president divided the North Carolina delegation in the House along party lines. Only the three Democrats - Reps. Alma Adams, GK Butterfield, and David Price - voted in support.
• In the tweets, President Donald Trump told four freshmen, non-white lawmakers to “go back” to the countries they came from. All four are U.S. citizens, and most of them were born in the United States
• The president, for his part, has doubled-down on his comments. He tweeted Tuesday that he does not have “a Racist bone” in his body

The resolution condemning the president divided the North Carolina delegation in the House along party lines. Only the three Democrats - Reps. Alma Adams, GK Butterfield, and David Price - voted in support.

All of the North Carolina Republicans in the House voted against the resolution.

In the tweets, President Donald Trump told four freshmen, non-white congresswomen to “go back” to the countries they came from. All four are U.S. citizens, and three were born in the United States.

Democrats from North Carolina have panned the tweets as 'racist.' 

“Give me a break, this is extreme stuff. A few Republicans have begun to denounce it, but they ought to denounce it in a full-throated way. We all ought to. This is just not acceptable,” said Price, D-4th District, in an interview Tuesday.

In a statement, Adams, D-12th District, called Trump “a racist who is unfit to serve” after he did not back down or apologize for his tweets.

Across the aisle, Sen. Thom Tillis defended the president. A Republican, Tillis is up for re-election next year and has framed himself as a Trump-ally.

“The president’s not a racist, he’s not a xenophobe. He’s the son of an immigrant, he’s the husband of an immigrant. And people are trying to mischaracterize him,” Tillis said.

In a statement, Rep. Mark Walker, R-6th District, took a dig at the policy positions of the four congresswomen while not necessarily defending the president's tweets. “We defeat socialism by highlighting its inequalities and failures, not the lineage of those who promote its failed policies," he wrote. "In serving our minority communities, President Trump’s work is unparalleled. He should allow his actions to speak louder than his tweets.”

The overall House vote on the resolution condemning the president was split, with only four Republicans and one Independent joining with Democrats to approve the measure.

The president, for his part, has doubled-down on his comments. He tweeted Tuesday that he does not have “a Racist bone” in his body.