Dem rep says she’s skipping Trump’s inauguration

Democratic Rep. Katherine Clark (Mass.) plans to skip the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, the Boston Globe reports. 

Clark, who was elected in 2013, said she believes attending the inauguration would “normalize” Trump’s “bigoted, misogynist, anti-Semitic, and racist claims.”

Clark is breaking with the rest of the Massachusetts delegation, as all the other members from the state plan to attend the inauguration, the Globe notes. 

{mosads}“I support the peaceful transition of power, but I don’t feel that I need to attend the pageantry associated with and for this President,” she said.

“There is nothing about this presidency and his rejection about his core American values that I want to normalize.”

Clark joins Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.), who said in December he would not attend the ceremony, citing Trump’s “hatred, bigotry and prejudice.”