Vice President Kamala Harris angrily dodged questions on border policy, Iran and President Biden’s fitness for office in an contentious interview with Fox News host Bret Baier — as more polls showed her losing the initiative in the race for the White House.

The 26-minute interview with the Democratic nominee kicked off with a tense grilling by Baier on immigration policy — with Harris repeatedly refusing to say that terminating former President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy was a mistake.

Baier’s first question schooled Harris about the effects of the current administration’s more permissive policies, which allow many illegal border-crossers to await asylum rulings inside the US, before asking how many migrants had been allowed into the US after crossing illegally.

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"Getting Hammered" podcast host Mary Katharine Ham has fired back at a Harris campaign adviser who suggested the VP was treated unfairly by Fox News host Bret Baier.

David Plouffe had posted: "Kamala Harris (strong) handled an ambush Fox interview light years better than the hash Donald Trump (unstable) made of the Fox pep rally disguised as a town hall."

"If every probable question she could easily have prepped for about her own record is an ambush, that’s on you guys," Ham, a Fox contributor, rebutted on X.

Spokespeople for the Harris and Trump campaigns have gotten in an internet slapfight about the veep's Fox News interview.

"How much is Team Trump freaking out about Vice President Harris going into the Fox lion's den and schooling them?" asked Harris spokesman Ian Sams. "Trump War Room and top advisers @JasonMillerinDC and @TimMurtaugh alone tweeted 40 times during the interview."

"Thou doth protest too much," Sams quipped.

Newly installed Trump adviser Tim Murtaugh fired back: "The interview was your idea, wasn’t it?"

Former first son Eric Trump panned Vice President Kamala Harris' first-ever Fox News sitdown during an appearance on "The Ingraham Angle."

"There was nothing about that interview that showed any kind of strength, any kind of backbone," the younger Trump said. "It was just the same sound bites that, frankly she's been mocked for saying over and over and over.

"It is so sad. We deserve so much better."

"The contradictions don't make sense," Eric added later in his appearance. "I'm a really smart guy, but none of us could follow it."

Fox News' Bret Baier said the Harris team was 'icing the kicker' after the vice president showed up late to a contentious interview, her first with the network.

GOP vice presidential hopeful JD Vance needled Democrats following Kamala Harris' interview with Fox News, chiding that they might want to reconsider the switcharoo.

"To my Democratic friends: maybe you should consider swapping Kamala Harris for Joe Biden," Vance posted on X after the interview.

A Harris campaign senior adviser has weighed in on the Fox News interview.

"Kamala Harris (strong) handled an ambush Fox interview light years better than the hash Donald Trump (unstable) made of the Fox pep rally disguised as a town hall," quipped adviser David Plouffe on X.

Former Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.) argued Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris did not provide “full” answers on border security and immigration during her interview with Fox News “Special Report” host Bret Baier. 

“One or two of the key questions – particular ones that are strengths for President Trump – particularly border security and immigration,  some of the answers were not as full as they should have been,” Ford said.  

“And the question now becomes, does this interview move voters or move undecideds in battleground states?” he added. 

Ford also suggested that Harris, 59, was told by her team to “take on President Trump” if “you don't want to answer the question” – which the vice president did several times during the interview. 

After his sitdown with the vice president, Fox News anchor Bret Baier claimed that the Harris-Walz campaign pared down the allotted time he had with her just before the interview.

"It was already getting whittled down. And then, the vice president showed up [at] about 5:15. We were pushing the envelope to be able to turn it around for the top of the six o'clock [broadcast]," Baier revealed of the behind-the-scenes correspondence with the campaign.

"I could tell when we started talking that she was going to be tough to, you know, redirect, without me trying to interrupt."

Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume said the "worst" response from Kamala Harris was ducking a question about President Biden's cognitive decline.

"You told many interviewers that Joe Biden was on his game, that ran around circles on his staff," Baier said. "When did you first notice that President Biden's mental faculties appeared diminished?"

Harris paused noticeably before saying: "Joe Biden — I have watched from the Oval Office to the Situation Room, and he has the judgment and experience to do exactly what he has done in making very important decisions on behalf of the American people."

"There were no concerns with--" Baier cut in.

"Bret, Joe Biden is not on the ballot," Harris cut in.

"You met with him for at least once a week for at least three years. You didn't have any concerns?" Baier pressed.

"I think the American people have a concern about Donald Trump," Harris dodged again.

Several critics blasted Vice President Kamala Harris after she told Bret Baier during a back-and-forth over taxpayer-funded surgery for transgender inmates that "you're responsible for what happens in your administration."

"That Harris line is gonna be in Trump ads ... and not in ways she's gonna like," former GOP campaign adviser Matt Gorman said on X.

"Does anyone else see the irony in the fact that in the same sentence Harris says that people are responsible for their own administration and then also say her campaign slogan is to 'turn the page?' Does she mean on herself?" added commentator Dr. Nicole Saphier.

The Harris campaign's rapid response team clipped only seven interactions from her 30-minute interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier that just aired.

The first faulted Baier for interrupting Harris while she dodged a question about eliminating "Remain in Mexico" after taking office. The vice president pointed to two other bills that never passed a single chamber of Congress.

The second touted support for her economic proposals from Wall Street and Nobel laureates, which are projected to add trillions of dollars less to the federal deficit than Trump's ideas.

The third was her promise that a Harris presidency "will not be a continuation of Joe Biden's presidency."

The fourth showed her evading whether her administration would be "turning the page" from Biden's term. Harris said: "We want to turn the page from the last decade in which we have been burdened with the kind of rhetoric coming from Donald Trump that has been designed to divide our country."

In the fifth, Harris noted an array of former top Republican officials who are supporting her 2024 run — including some of Trump's own ex-advisers.

The veep in the sixth clipped response pointed the finger at Trump when asked why 79% of Americans believe the country is "on the wrong track." "He's the one who demeans and belittles the American people," she said.

Baier and Harris locked horns in the seventh over a clip of the 45th president talking about "the enemy within" the US.