Miss North Dakota Cara Mund reacts after being announced as the victor of the 97th Miss America Competition in Atlantic City, New Jersey U.S. September 10, 2017.
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11, her former school was buzzing about Mund becoming the first North Dakotan to win the Miss America crown.
The victor of Miss America 2018 said President Donald Trump was wrong for pulling the United States out of the Paris climate accord.
“Good for her, I mean everyone deserves a chance so why not North Dakota”, said Rayeanne Marcelli, Pageant viewer. The 21-year-old University of Alabama senior made her feelings known about the reality dating show during the interview portion of the pageant, and honestly, we were pretty shocked to hear it.
She said that her mother was her biggest strength and shared her mother’s advice that we cannot control the cards that we are dealing with but we can surely control our hands. She said the importance of being a part of the climate talks was not about whether “climate change exists or not”. Once we reject that, we take ourselves out of the negotiation table.
According to the Miss America website, Mund founded North Dakota’s Annual Make-A-Wish Fashion Show at age 14.
Approaching the water, she waded in with bare feet, then jumped and smiled for the cameras, checking each time to see if her crown was still on her head.
Just who is Cara Mund and how did she get here?
Her high school teachers said Mund took the most challenging classes to reach her goal of attending Brown.
The local pageant season is underway, with the next competition slated for 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 17, at the North Dakota State University Memorial Union.
Cara Mund participates in Evening Wear challenge during Miss America 2018.
During the question-and-answer portion, Miss America candidates were asked different questions about the current political affairs and President Trump and therefore the event became political.
Miss Texas was asked about Charlottesville protests, and if she agreed with Trump that there was “very fine people” on both sides of the protests.
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Trump, who once owned the now-shuttered Atlantic City casino next door to where Mund spoke on Monday, has said the Paris accord was a bad deal economically for the United States.
