The hashtag #TrainWreckKamala shot to the top of X (formerly Twitter) after Vice President Kamala Harris‘ rocky interview on Fox News with Bret Baier. On Wednesday evening, Harris faced tough questions, primarily focusing on her administration’s handling of immigration and border security. Critics quickly labeled the interview a disaster, and the hashtag began trending early Thursday morning, accumulating over 30,000 posts by midday.
The most heated moment came when Baier pressed Harris about the tragic murders of Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, and Jocelyn Nungaray, all reportedly killed by illegal immigrants who entered the country under the Biden administration’s more lenient border policies. Commentators, such as Brenden Dilley, shared clips of this exchange on X, calling Harris’ response a “trainwreck.” Dilley captioned the clip with, “There is no recovering from this answer less than three weeks before an election. #TrainWreckKamala.”
When asked if she would apologize to the victims’ families, Harris called the incidents “tragic cases that should not have occurred,” but shifted the blame to former President Donald Trump, saying, “It is also true that if a border security bill had been passed nine months ago, we would have had more agents at the border by now,