Trump’s Project 2025 Is ‘Desperate Housewives’ Reboot, Eva Longoria Declares As POTUS Campaign Enters Final Weeks
Coming off her appearance on the final night of the Democratic National Convention last month, the Hyphenate Media Group co-founder Eva Longoria says she is “hopeful” that Kamala Harris will beat Donald Trump in the election.
“Very hopeful, very hopeful, Longoria said onstage Friday at the FT Business of Entertainment Summit. “Yeah, I’m also a manifester, so I have to say that as well,” the longtime activist and Democrat added of the Vice President’s electoral battle against the former president. “She will be president. Yeah, I cannot wait to say Madam President, for sure.”
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For all her optimism, Longoria tempered her remarks today about the race with the reality of hard numbers – and a very precise throwback shiv to the GOP.
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“It’s wild to me that we’re neck and neck in this election with the things that have come out of one candidate’s mouth,” she told the West Hollywood audience on the final panel of the two-day conference, regarding the latest polls and Trump’s pet-eating claims. “One candidate that wants to move this country forward, and one that wants to reboot Desperate Housewives.”
The swipe by Texas-born Longoria hits a little harder being that she was one of the stars of the Marc Cherry-created Desperate Housewives during its ratings-topping run from 2004-2012.
Ever since Taraji P Henson called out Project 2025 at the BET Awards in June, Trump has been trying to distance himself from the draconian mandate for a second term. Yet, Trump’s pleas have proven mostly unsuccessful, in no small part because some of his closest aides worked on the 920-page Heritage Foundation document, which is full of restrictions on women, reproductive rights and more.
“A good thing that’s happening is women are coming out in full force for reproductive rights, no matter what side of the aisle you’re on,” Longoria said of the conservative SCOTUS overturning of Roe v Wade in 2022, and awoman’s right to choose becoming a centerpiece of the Harris campaign and down-ticket Democrats.
To that end, as well as discussing the vision that she and partner/Television Academy chair Cris Abrego have for Hyphenate, Longoria also provided some broad strokes about her own schedule as 45 days remain before the November 5 election. “A lot of my efforts are Arizona, Nevada, because it’s a large Hispanic population,” Longoria explained.
While filming overseas for much of this year, she has been working the phone banks for months for both President Joe Biden and the VP, I hear.
As the Flamin’ Hot director said, VP Harris and Trump are truly neck and neck right now. More than a week after the candidates went head to head in their first and maybe only debate, a New York Times/Philadelphia Inquirer poll Thursday had the two tied with 47% of the vote each.
A celebrity participant in Democratic politics for decades and having spoken at past several DNCs, Longoria is expected to be out on the campaign trail herself next month.
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