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Senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod looked Sunday punch back at Republicans who have seized on the president's remarks that "the private sector is doing fine," arguing Sunday the GOP was trying to distract from the president's jobs plan.

"They're more eager to have a debate over an out-of-context clause in his remarks than the substance of what he said," Axelrod said on CNN's "State of the Union."

The former White House official said the tax and jobs plans advocated by the president would help stimulate the economy in both the private and public sector.

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