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To the editor: Suppose both President Biden and former President Trump deliver coherent, policy-oriented talk at their debate. Should they then be judged only by that single night’s performance? (“Presidential debates generally don’t matter. This Biden-Trump face-off could be different,” Opinion, June 25)

Context is what matters in evaluating a person, not a single, staged event such as the June 27 debate. Biden and Trump should both be viewed within the larger context of their past behavior.

Viewed this way, we voters should do our utmost best to recall and then calmly evaluate both candidates’ records on the following:

Most importantly, which candidate would you want your children to emulate?

Victor Wagan Monsura, Garden Grove

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To the editor: After reading articles on the upcoming presidential debate, I believe Trump and Biden will put on a pretty horrible show.

The solution was to have independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the debate. CNN’s refusal to allow him on stage is a slap in the face to all of us who would like to hear someone other than Biden and Trump.

This is still America, the land of the free — or at least I thought it was.

Virginia Noyes, Glendale

This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.