'I wasn't really meaning to send a message,' says teen whose photo at Pennington County Fair sparked Republican backlash
Her photo of a burning Trump-Pence sign earned a blue ribbon.
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Jacqueline Zaviska
Jacqueline Zaviska almost didn't submit the photo
It was 6:30 p.m. on July 13, just 30 minutes before judging at the Pennington County Fair ended, and the 18-year-old was "in the Huck [Olson Arena] parking lot putting my entries together with tape and sharpies I had just bought at Walmart."
She went back and forth, whittling down her eight possibilities to four, and messaged her friend: Should she include the one of the burning Trump-Pence sign, striking orange flames against a black backdrop?