The Tampa Bay Times asked every major Democratic presidential candidate to weigh in on issues of particular interest to Floridians. Fifteen responded. Here are their answers, word-for-word.

Three of the questions are ours. We focused on topics important to Florida that we haven’t seen the candidates already address. The rest come directly from readers like you.

We’ve highlighted the heart of every answer, but tap on the response to read their whole statement.

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“Polling above 5 percent” means the candidate’s RealClearPolitics national polling average was greater than or equal to 1.0 percent for the time period from Aug. 21 through Sept. 3.