Updated at 11:15 a.m.: Updated with comments from Democratic groups.

WASHINGTON — A day before the House is set to take a critical vote on a bill to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions told CNN that “nobody” will “lose” coverage under the GOP’s health care proposal.

That’s about 24 million fewer people than the Congressional Budget Office estimates will lose health insurance over the next decade if the GOP plan replaces Obamacare.

Sessions' remarks came during an early Wednesday interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo, who asked about criticisms from the left and right over the GOP's American Health Care Act.

The bill, pushed by Speaker Paul Ryan, would offer tax credits to many Americans to help buy insurance. The credits, in particular, would aid many middle class people who saw no help under Obamacare. But critics say it's not enough to help the working poor, who they say will struggle to afford coverage. The legislation would trim about $337 billion from the federal deficit over a decade, while slashing about $880 billion from Medicaid.

Republican Pete Sessions just literally said "Nobody is going to lose their coverage, you'll be able to keep your same doctor," "same plan." pic.twitter.com/nn0f4dFloc — Tommy X-TrumpIsARacist-opher (@tommyxtopher) March 22, 2017

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“Nobody is going to lose their coverage,” Sessions, chairman of the House Rules Committee, told CNN.

Then echoing former President Barack Obama's infamous "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" pledge, Sesssions said: “You’ll be able to keep your same doctor, you’ll be able to keep your same plan.”

Democrats quickly pounced on his remarks.

This is completely false. https://t.co/qMrc0vOSjL — Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) March 22, 2017

The 37,900 Texans in CD32 who will lose health care under the GOP plan are just "nobody" to @PeteSessions https://t.co/4jMgBi9XrF https://t.co/KVOGU1fpEx — Lone Star Project (@lsptex) March 22, 2017

A spokeswoman for the congressman later explained that Sessions meant Americans will have the choice whether to obtain or maintain coverage— not that the GOP bill would take coverage away. The American Health Care Act would nix the ACA mandates requiring Americans to have health insurance.

As many as 14 million more people would be uninsured next year under the proposed law, according to the March 13 assessment by the CBO and Joint Committee on Taxation, and 24 million by 2026. The CBO report attributes the rise, in part, to Americans voluntarily dropping coverage with the elimination of the individual mandate, and others giving up health insurance because of premiums rising in the early years of the new law.

Combined with anticipated reductions in the Medicaid program, 52 million Americans will be uninsured by 2026, the CBO report found. That compares with 28 million Americans who would be uninsured if Obamacare remained in place.

Those estimates could change before the Thursday vote as, according to GOP leaders, the CBO is expected to release a newer score of the American Health Care Act based on revisions.

Sessions is presiding over what is expected to be a marathon committee hearing on Wednesday in which lawmakers attempt to tack on amendments to the GOP's embattled legislation.

Despite warnings from President Donald Trump to GOP lawmakers to back the proposal, a group of conservatives has yet to indicate whether it will support it.

The House Freedom Caucus, along with a handful of conservative senators, says the measure doesn’t do enough to repeal the Affordable Care Act and takes issue with the use of tax credits to help Americans buy insurance, arguing it’s another entitlement.

Democrats blast the bill as a massive tax giveaway to the wealthy and a toll on the nation’s working poor.

Sessions, a member of Ryan's leadership team, acknowledged that Republicans haven’t succeeded in explaining the mechanics of the proposal to voters back home.

He laid blame on GOP leaders for failing on that front.

"The people back home are not sold on what we’re doing yet," he said, later adding: “It’s really a matter of giving confidence to the American people, and I will confess, perhaps at the very top, there’s a lack of understanding of how to sell this bill."

Still, he predicted it will pass when it comes to the House floor on Thursday — stressing that it’s the first of many votes to be taken on the legislation.

Last year, the Dallas Republican introduced his own health care proposal last year that aimed to fix, not replace, Obamacare.

Portions of his plan were incorporated into the American Health Care Act, but the congressman indicated he's less than enthusiastic about the final product.

“As you know this was a compromise bill. This was not the one we originally started with, nor was it the one I wanted,” Sessions told CNN. But “is it better than what we have today? Absolutely. Will it save the American health care system? Yes. Is it something we’re going to have to work with for a long time? Yes, also.”