Re “Dueling personalities, not policies,” Aug. 25

To suggest, as reporter Janet Hook does in her front-page news analysis, that the election is “more a choice between two men than between competing agendas” is absurd.

No doubt Biden and the Democrats want the election to be about the “nice guy” versus the “not nice guy,” but Trump and those who are going to vote for him know full well that the agendas and policies the two men stand for could not be more different.

For starters, consider Medicare for all, immigration, repealing the Trump tax cuts, fossil fuels and the Green New Deal, the 2nd Amendment, law and order, closing down the economy again and on and on.

If the Democrats ran on their agenda, they would lose — and they know it. Ted Martin

Los Angeles

With his convention appearances, Trump has gleefuly violated the Hatch Act by holding a campaign event at the White House. There has been no mention of this on your front page.

I know we are all numb to the lawbreaking of the Trump gang, but we look to the news media to keep showing us what is going on.

The L.A. Times has failed to convey how serious of breach this is. We look to the media to speak truth to power, and on this you have failed. Amy Richards

Pasadena

So far, the convention has met expectations.

Bombastic, untruthful, lacking substance and in complete devotion to the incompetent his supporters elected to office, the convention has been another Trump-produced reality TV program meant to entertain his base.

What a tasty irony it will be if Trump, after coming to greater national awareness by hosting one reality show, ended up being destroyed politically by another one. Jeffrey Wade

San Diego

Is this “take your kids to work” week? Kristi Rodehorst

Los Angeles