2017 Miss America Cara Mund (now with Harvard Law Degree) runs for North Dakota's sole House seat as pro-choice anti-Trump Republican

Ex-Miss America-turned-GOP House candidate is pushing abortion as a conservative issue​

Miss America 2018 Cara Mund is vying to become North Dakota's first female member in the U.S. House of Representatives by running on a unique platform: she's is a pro-choice, anti-Trump Republican.

"As a conservative, I support limited government, and all of you [debate opponents] wanna be in spaces that the government should not be. The government should not be in your bedroom, they should not be in your doctors appointments," she said at the debate.

she is part of a crowded Republican primary to fill the seat vacated by Rep. Kelly Armstrong, who is running for the state's executive seat after Gov. Doug Burgum dropped out of the presidential race and announced he would not run for reelection as governor.

In 2022, she ran for the state's only congressional seat as an independent. The Independent reported that she was motivated by the leaked Dobbs decisionsignaling the end to the right to an abortion. Mund lost with 37.6% of the voteagainst incumbent Armstrong.

She came in third with 20% of the vote. The hard right candidate came in second. And what passes for North Dakota moderate is the winner: Public Service Commissioner Julie Fedorchak