LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Just two days before Election Day, former President Donald Trump criticized spending by the Biden-Harris administration and mocked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

“They way overspent,” Trump said at a rally in North Carolina Sunday. “They got trillions and trillions of dollars. Hopefully, we get rid of Mitch McConnell pretty soon because he helped them. That guy.”

McConnell announced earlier this year that he would step down as the Senate’s Republican leader after the election.

He and Trump have had an icy relationship for years.

McConnell blamed Trump for inciting the deadly Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, but he voted to acquit Trump in his second impeachment trial.

In March, McConnell endorsed Trump, although he did so long after other Republican leaders and some Kentucky lawmakers on Capitol Hill backed the former president. 

“Can you believe he endorsed me?” Trump said Sunday. “Boy, that must have been a painful day in his life. Every time I think of it, he didn’t have to do that. He provided the necessary votes. What a disgrace.”

“The Price of Power,” a biography of McConnell by Michael Tackett which was released last week, says the Kentucky senator once said of Trump, “‘I can’t think of anybody I’d rather be criticized by than this sleazeball … So every time he takes a shot at me, I think it’s good for my reputation.’”

When excerpts of the book came out last month, McConnell told the Associated Press, “Whatever I may have said about President Trump pales in comparison to what JD Vance, Lindsey Graham, and others have said about him, but we are all on the same team now.”

Spectrum News reached out to McConnell’s team for comment on Trump’s remarks.

Though McConnell endorsed Trump publicly, the senator declined to tell Tackett who he was voting for this year, Tackett said.