Here Are All the Members of Congress Who Are Boycotting Trump’s Inauguration — and Why

Donald Trump‘s inauguration won’t be a star-studded affair on Friday — and it’s shaping up to be skippable by many politicians as well.

Though he won the Electoral College by 306 votes to Hillary Clinton’s 236, he’s starting off his presidency with the lowest approval rate in decades — just 40 percent, according to a CNN/ORC survey. (Before he took office in early 2009, Barack Obama’s approval rating was 84 percent, according to the same survey.)

That disapproval has seeped into the Capitol, with 51 members of Congress (at current count) abstaining from Trump’s inauguration and the following festivities.

Most notable is Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon and longtime Democratic congressman from Georgia. Though Lewis’s lack of attendance is the only one that’s gotten Trump fired up on Twitter (so far) others have followed in Lewis’s path.

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Trump was asked about the growing number of lawmakers who won’t be attending during an interview on Fox & Friends, and claimed he didn’t care — and he’d like to dole their tickets out to others.

“That’s okay, because we need seats so badly,” he said. “I hope they give me their tickets.”

Trump’s claim about huge demand notwithstanding, his team has flooded Facebook this week with ads in which Trump is trying to drum up interest in attending by “personally inviting” Facebook users en masse.

Event planners are expecting no more than 900,000 people, according to NBC. And that number won’t include the following members of Congress — and for 20 of them, here are the statements they made to defend their decision:

Rep. John Lewis (D-GA)

“I believe in forgiveness. I believe in trying to work with people. It’s going to be hard. It’s going to be very difficult. I don’t see this president-elect as a legitimate president. I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected. And they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. I don’t plan to attend the inauguration. It will be the first one that I miss since I’ve been in Congress. You cannot be at home with something that you feel is wrong.” (RealClearPolitics)

Rep. Ted W. Lieu (D-CA)

“For me, the personal decision not to attend inauguration is quite simple: Do I stand with Donald Trump, or do I stand with John Lewis? I am standing with John Lewis.” (The Mercury News)

Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)

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Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL)

“I cannot go to inauguration of a man who’s going to appoint people to the Supreme Court and turn back the clock on women and turn back the clock on immigrants and the safety and freedom that we fought for them.” (WGN)

Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA)

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Rep. John Conyers (D-MI)

“I am not attending this year’s inauguration due to my concern over a number of divisive and inflammatory statements made by the president-elect. Over the course of the incoming administration, as ranking member on the Judiciary Committee, I will oppose policies that reverse the progress we have made over the last eight years and support policies that serve to protect rights and liberties of all Americans, including the areas of criminal justice and voting rights reform. I will do everything in my power to ensure that accountability is brought to bear on the administration, and that the Constitution and our nation’s laws are adhered to, as no one is above the law.” (Detroit News)

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)