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Miss America 2018 Cara Mund, 30, announced on Monday she is running for the single House seat for North Dakota in 2024.

As Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.) runs for governor in his state, Mund is making her second shot to get the at-large seat.

The former Miss America winner ran an unsuccessful independent bid in the 2022 election for Armstrong's congressional seat – losing to the incumbent by 24.6 percent.

She ran on abortion rights in the last election, claiming that her motivation to enter the race stemmed from the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision in the Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade and stripped federal protections for abortion.

'Are you ready for it? U.S. House 2024…let's go, North Dakota!' the millennial candidate quoting Taylor Swift lyrics in announcing her bid in a post on X, formerly Twitter. 

Mund said she filed the appropriate paperwork with the North Dakota Secretary of State's office and is waiting for verification to make sure she's on the June primary ballot.

If successful in 2024, Mund would be the first woman to represent North Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Mund told reporters on Monday that she believes in limited government and reiterated her pro-choice stance by saying: 'I don't think that they should be controlling women.'

She also said she has many similar views to her opponents in the race, including securing the southern border.

But she dodged on whether she supports former President Donald Trump, who many still see as a kingmaker of the Republican Party.

'As a lawyer, I support law and order,' Mund said. 'If you've been proven guilty, that is a court ruling.'

The North Dakota GOP state convention last week resulted in the Party endorsing Alex Balazs, a veteran and former U.S. State Department

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