Can't consume api responses returning single strings

[aalejandromr]

Getting JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data because the response from the API is a single String (Token).

Using the following config

const externalApi = configureApi({
      root: process.env.ELAVON_TRANSACTION_TOKEN_ENDPOINT,
      mode: 'cors'
    })
  
    externalApi.post('/hosted-payments/transaction_token', { 
      ssl_merchant_id: process.env.ELAVON_SSL_MERCHANT_ID, 
      ssl_user_id: process.env.ELAVON_SSL_USER_ID, 
      ssl_pin: process.env.ELAVON_SSL_PIN, 
      ssl_transaction_type: "ecspurchase"
    })
    .then((data) => {
      console.log(data); // Doesn't reach this point
    })
    .catch((results) => {
      console.log("HERE"); // Throws the exception and consoles this one
    });
    

Response from the api

Content-Type is application/json

While using axios, I'm able to get the response back as a String but lp-requests fails with the above error. It looks like axios by default will return the plain response if JSON.parse fails.