[Python] using pipelines with a local model

I am trying to use a simple pipeline offline. I am only allowed to download files directly from the web.

I went to https://huggingface.co/distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english/tree/main and downloaded all the files in a local folder C:\\Users\\me\\mymodel

However, when I tried to load the model I get a strange error

from transformers import pipeline

classifier = pipeline(task= 'sentiment-analysis',
model= "C:\\Users\\me\\mymodel",
tokenizer = "C:\\Users\\me\\mymodel")

ValueError: unable to parse C:\Users\me\mymodel\modelcard.json as a URL or as a local path


What is the issue here?

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