data argument for Text field not rendering / saving

PHP Version 7.4.3

Update: I managed to fix this by setting the default argument to the array I was trying to use in the data argument ie: 'default' => $raffle_events

Hi, last week my data argument for my field “bpr_events” was working right, and the options object looked like this:

-bpr_events: [
"activity_update"
"activity_comment"
"friendship_created"
"joined_group"
"activity_like"
]

I’m not sure what happened, but now the options object looks like this:

bpr_events: [
[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
]

It saves each item as an empty array.

Here is the code:

$raffle_events = array('activity_update', 'activity_comment', 'friendship_created', 'joined_group', 'activity_like');

$raffle_events_field = array(
	'id' => 'bpr_events',
	'type' => 'text',
	'data' => $raffle_events
);
array_push($fields_array, $raffle_events_field);
// some other code ...

Redux::set_section($opt_name, array(
	'title'      => __('Raffle Events', 'bpr-raffle'),
	'id'         => 'raffle_events_section',
	'desc'       => __('Choose options for the behavior of each raffle event.'),
	'fields'     => $fields_array,
));