Miss America Contestants Were Asked Politically-Charged Questions Last Night Christine Rousselle Posted: Sep 11, 2017

On Sunday night, Miss North Dakota Cara Mund became the first-ever Miss North Dakota to be crowned Miss America. Mund, a 23-year-old from Bismarck, North Dakota, is a graduate of Brown University and recently interned for Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND). Mund is the first Ivy League graduate to win Miss America since 1954, and plans on attending Notre Dame Law School after her reign.
While Mund's win is fairly uncontroversial, what raised some eyebrows last night were the amount of politics-related questions that were asked to the beauty queens prior to the crowning. Of the questions asked to the top five, four of them were explicitly political.
First up, Miss Missouri was asked if she thought that President Donald Trump had colluded with Russia during the presidential campaign. She said that she would have to say that he was innocent of collusion, as there is not currently enough evidence that he is guilty. She also believed that the investigation into the collusion should continue.

READ MORE