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“I know this is not the ceremony you had in mind when you started your studies at UConn some time ago, but it doesn’t reduce the significance of this day in your life or the importance of what you’ve achieved,” said President Thomas Katsouleas, standing at a lecturn wearing academic regalia.

Even before President Trump took to the lecturn to deliver his first State of the Union speech, the rebuttal was well underway at Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington.

Kraft was equally concilitory when he took the lecturn with Trump standing directly behind him.

The audience at the event, held at Aiken Technical College in Graniteville, S.C., near the state’s Western border, was antagonistic from the start, booing audibly as he stepped to the lecturn.

We watched him, in the second debate, prowling behind his opponent, back and forth with lowered head, belligerent and looming, while she moved within her legitimate space, returning to her lecturn after each response: tightly smiling, trying to be reasonable, trying to be impervious.