For the mini-challenge, the contestants design an Absolut Vodka-inspired shoe. Phi Phi O'Hara wins the mini-challenge. For the main challenge, the contestants participate in a presidential debate as the 2012 Wig Party candidate.
Dan Savage and Jeffrey Moran are guest judges. The runway category is 'Inaugural Drag'. Chad Michaels and Sharon Needles receive positive critiques, and Sharon Needles wins the challenge. DiDa Ritz, Latrice Royale, and Phi Phi O'Hara receive negative critiques, and Phi Phi O'Hara is deemed safe. DiDa Ritz and Latrice Royale face off in a lip-sync to "I've Got to Use My Imagination" (1973) by Gladys Knight & the Pips. Latrice Royale wins the lip-sync and DiDa Ritz is eliminated from the competition. At the end of the episode, RuPaul tells the other contestants that the judges will be voting one of the eliminated queens back into the competition.