JD Vance Dunks on Former Teen Beauty Pageant Contestant to Mock Kamala Harris

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Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance mocked a former beauty pageant contestant who flubbed a response during Miss Teen USA all the way back in 2007.

Caitlin Upton caught the stray from the U.S. senator and running mate of former President Donald Trump on Thursday when Vance mocked Vice President Kamala Harris in a tweet.

As Miss South Carolina Teen USA in 2007, Upton was asked a fairly unforgiving question that invited her to speculate as to why Americans suck at geography.

“Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?”

Upton slogged through her response:

I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, um, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq and everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future.

Vance dug up the 17-year-old clip and posted it on X, formerly Twitter.

“BREAKING: I have gotten ahold of the full Kamala Harris CNN interview,” he wrote, alluding to CNN’s interview with Harris and running mate Tim Walz , the governor of Minnesota.

The tweet went over like a lead balloon, with many criticizing Vance’s decision to drag a private citizen over a response she gave as a teenager.

“Apparently he doesn’t know that 52-55% of the electorate is female,” conservative attorney and never-Trumper George Conway wrote . “Let’s not tell him.”