Former Obama adviser and current CNN political commentator David Axelrod called it a “fact” that Americans don’t want a single-payer health care system.

Axelrod’s comments came Tuesday night following the first of two Democratic presidential primary debates on the network. The event prominently featured Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, both of whom support a single-payer Medicare for All system, and they spent much of the debate arguing in favor of it.

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