Cara Mund beat out 51 contestants to win the final in Atlantic City on September 10.
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The Miss USA 2018 finals have just ended in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Cara Mund of North Dakota won. |
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Miss America 2017, Savvy Shields, passes the crown to her successor. |
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Cara Mund and other Miss USA 2018 contestants had to go through bikini, talent, and behavioral rounds in the final night. |
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During the question and answer portion of the competition, Cara Mund said that President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the climate change agreement was a bad one. She said that climate change is real and the US needs to be at the negotiating table. |
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During the talent show, she showed off her dancing skills to Michael Jackson's "The Way You Make Me Feel". |
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Cara Mund is 23 years old, graduated from Brown University and is studying law at the University of Notre Dame. |
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During the competition, Cara Mund said she learned a lot from her mother. "She was diagnosed with cancer three times. But she always told me, 'You can't control the cards you're dealt, but you can control the hand that holds them.'" |
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Winning Miss USA 2018, Cara Mund received a $50,000 scholarship, a salary during her reign, and a contract with Dick Clark Productions. |
According to VNE