Former President Donald Trump is taking a victory lap following the discharge of a ballot exhibiting that GOP Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is the nation’s least widespread senator.

A ballot launched by Morning Seek the advice of on Monday discovered that solely 31 % of Kentucky voters permitted of McConnell, whereas 62 % disapproved—the worst efficiency of any senator in a state-by-state survey just lately performed by the agency. Trump took to Reality Social to say that he was personally chargeable for McConnell’s dismal efficiency hours after the ballot was launched.

“See what I can do to folks?” Trump wrote. “This was a straightforward one!”

The previous president has more and more lashed out at McConnell since leaving workplace in January 2021, generally labeling him a “RINO,” a time period which means “Republican in title solely,” or referring to him as an “Outdated Crow” or “Damaged Outdated Crow.”

McConnell’s rift with the previous president widened partially as a consequence of his having stated that Trump was “virtually and morally chargeable for frightening the occasions of” January 6, though he didn’t vote to convict the previous president throughout his second Senate impeachment trial.

Trump additionally just lately lashed out at McConnell as a “disloyal sleaze bag” on Reality Social over video clips performed by the Home January 6 choose committee final week, which present the Kentucky Republican asserting that the January 6 rioters wouldn’t cease Congress from certifying President Joe Biden‘s 2020 election win.

“We’re not going to let these folks hold us from ending our enterprise,” McConnell stated throughout the riot within the video performed by the committee on Thursday, referring to the mob of Trump supporters who tried to dam the certification by violently storming the Capitol.

“Is that this the identical Mitch McConnell who was dropping large in Kentucky, and got here to the White Home to BEG me for an Endorsement and assist?” Trump posted to Reality Social not lengthy after the clip performed. “With out me he would have misplaced in a landslide. A disloyal sleaze bag!”

Whereas McConnell’s efficiency within the ballot launched Monday coincides with heavy disapproval and criticism from Trump, the identical can’t be stated for the performances of all Republican senators that Trump has often spoken out towards.

The ballot discovered that Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, the one Republican who’s each up for reelection this yr and voted to convict Trump for inciting rebellion at his second impeachment trial, had skilled a web 22 % enchancment in her approval ranking throughout President Joe Biden’s presidency.

Newsweek reached out to McConnell’s workplace for remark.