Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Senate GOP aims to confirm Trump court pick by Oct. 29: report Trump argues full Supreme Court needed to settle potential election disputes MORE (R-Ky.) referred to himself as a “rock star” following Justice Brett Kavanaugh Brett Michael KavanaughOvernight Health Care: US coronavirus deaths hit 200,000 | Ginsburg's death puts future of ObamaCare at risk | Federal panel delays vote on initial COVID-19 vaccine distribution Senate GOP sees early Supreme Court vote as political booster shot Trump says he'll make Supreme Court pick on Saturday MORE’s contentious confirmation process last year.

The quote comes from an excerpt from the yet-to-be-released book “The Hill to Die On,” by Politico reporters Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer, shared by HuffPost reporter Yashar Ali in his newsletter.

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McConnell cited an Oct. 11 CNN poll that showed his approval rating among Republicans jumped from 30 percent to 62 percent after Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

“I’d never had an audience like that before. So all of these Republicans who are constantly told by radio talk show hosts and others that I’m a villain got to see a sort of different side,” McConnell told Sherman and Palmer. “So that’s how it impacted me. I know it won’t last. But for the moment, I’m a rock star.”

>@yashar has a snippet from our book, “The Hill to Die On.”



We asked @senatemajldr Mitch McConnell about how the Kavanaugh episode impacted him. He said his poll numbers went up, and this: “I know it won’t last, but for the moment, I’m a rockstar.” https://t.co/W6dnJGV7Kc pic.twitter.com/Airja2BHMI — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) April 4, 2019

McConnell was instrumental in pushing for Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Kavanaugh faced tough opposition from Democrats over allegations he sexually assaulted a woman named Christine Blasey-Ford at a party when the two were in high school

After the confirmation, McConnell had his highest favorability rating among all voters in the CNN poll since December of 2010. His 62 percent favorable rating among Republicans was a 31-point increase from a year before.