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Sound Off: June 8, 2026

President Joe Biden looks down as he participates in a presidential debate with former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at CNN’s studios in Atlanta, on June 27, 2024.
President Joe Biden looks down as he participates in a presidential debate with former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at CNN’s studios in Atlanta, on June 27, 2024. Getty Images/TNS

Sun Herald readers weigh in on local and national topics.

Agreeing it was a draw

The Biden and Trump debate where Biden appeared to be having a stroke was a draw because Trump’s performance was so bad that a man having a stroke could still compete. Trump’s performance was a joke with no content.

Democrats

Most Democrats don’t love America. Their identity is built on the delusion that they’re better than America. Which is why they hate our history and want to fundamentally transform this country into something else.

California

I’m looking at how long it takes to name a winner for a California election and wondering why anyone in their right mind would think the leader of that state should be the leader of the free world.

Thank you

Susie Wiles is right. The press has spent years trying to create drama around President Trump and his team.

BDS?

For all the noise about how Donald Trump lives rent-free in the heads of those who think he is the worst thing to ever happen to this country, an awful lot of Trump worshippers just keep on rehashing Joe Biden’s faults.

These are Christians?

As I read the daily Sound Offs, I’m amazed at some of the comments which make me wonder how many people in this country, “Christians” in particular, really don’t believe that we are all God’s children.

Money for crime

Suddenly in this country, people who plead guilty to crimes or are convicted by a jury have somehow become the victims of government overreach, and must be pardoned and monetarily compensated.

Send your Sound Offs to soundoff@sunherald.com.

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