Trump sent a scathing email to Republican members of Congress taking credit for Mitch McConnell's Senate win

• President Donald Trump is lashing out against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after the Kentucky Republican acknowledged Joe Biden's presidential win last week.

• In an email apparently sent to select members of Congress, Trump took credit for McConnell's election win, citing a tweet and robocall he released in support of McConnell's candidacy.

• "Sadly Mitch forgot! He was the first one off the ship," says the slide, which Axios published.

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President Donald Trump lashed out at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday night and sent Republican lawmakers a slide admonishing the senator and outlining Trump's efforts to help secure McConnell's seventh Senate win.

The slide, which was first reported on and published by Axios, offers a timeline of McConnell's performance in polling against his Democratic challenger Amy McGrath to argue that McConnell's popularity jumped after Trump spoke out on his behalf.

Trump included two instances, the first being a June 19 tweet offering his explicit support of McConnell:

He also noted a robocall he released on McConnell's behalf on October 31.

The timeline omitted some information that would cast doubt on Trump's impact. It showed, for example, McConnell trailing McGrath by 1 point in a poll dated May 24, then - in the first poll it included after Trump's tweet - leading by 4 points in a poll conducted for Democrats on July 12, and then leading by 22 points in a poll conducted for Republicans on July 16. (The two partisan polls were actually conducted July 7-12 and July 11-16.)

That timeline, however, omitted a poll conducted by Civiqs on June 13-15 - before Trump's tweet - that found McConnell leading McGrath by 20 points. Kentucky's Democratic primary, in which McGrath won the party's nomination and only then was confirmed as McConnell's opponent in the general election, took place June 23.

McConnell acknowledged President-elect Joe Biden's win against Trump and congratulated the incoming president for the first time during a Senate session on December 15 after the Electoral College confirmed Biden's win.

"The Electoral College has spoken," McConnell said. "So today I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden."

McConnell attempted to quash support for Trump's Electoral College challenges. During a call last week, he privately warned GOP senators that supporting Trump's claims of a rigged election would result in a "terrible vote" in the Senate run-off elections in Georgia.

McConnell is one of several GOP leaders - including Sens. Thom Tillis and Chuck Grassley - who waited several weeks after Biden's victory became clear to acknowledge the win.

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