(CNN) Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday compared other 2020 candidates' opposition to his support for felons voting while incarcerated with the party's resistance to his 2016 policies that have transformed progressive factions of the party.

When CNN's Broke Baldwin pointed to other Democrats disagreeing with his stance on letting incarcerated felons vote, the Vermont senator replied, "Well, fine."

"Four years ago people disagreed with me on Medicare for All, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, criminal justice reform, spending $1 trillion on rebuilding our infrastructure," he said. "People disagreed with me, they'll disagree with me now."

Sanders penned an op-ed published Tuesday in USA Today, defending his stance on granting felons the right to vote as a way to help remedy America's history of voter suppression. If President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former personal attorney Michael Cohen go to jail, he wrote, "they should still be able to vote -- regardless of who they cast their vote for." During a CNN town hall earlier this month, Sanders also said that right should be extended to the Boston Marathon bomber

Sanders told Baldwin: "If you're a citizen of this country, you have the right to vote."

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