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Eva Longoria has already fled Trump’s ‘scary’ America

A number of celebrities, from Cher to Sharon Stone, have vowed to leave the United States if Donald Trump is elected president for a second term, but Eva Longoria has already made good on her plan to make her home elsewhere.

The Texas-born actor and director explained in a new profile for Marie Claire that she’s done with California and is now splitting her time between Spain and Mexico. Less than 24 hours after Harris conceded the election to Trump last week, Longoria contacted the Marie Claire author and said: “The shocking thing is not that he won, but that a convicted criminal who spews so much hate has the highest could hold office.”

Longoria, a longtime activist on behalf of Democrats, Latinos and women, spent the latter part of the summer campaigning for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

“I would like our fight to continue,” Longoria said in the Marie Claire profile published this week. But because the “Desperate Housewives” star was still coming to terms with the loss of Harris, she said she couldn’t pretend she knew what would happen next.

America is a “scary place” under a second Trump administration, Longoria said. “If he keeps his promises, it will be a scary place.”

Before the election, Longoria told Marie Claire that she had already moved from California, where she had spent her “entire adult life” building her career in TV and films.

Longoria, who is a Spanish national, and her husband, producer José Bastón, who was born in Mexico, have been living abroad with their 6-year-old son Santiago while she worked on her CNN miniseries “Searching for Spain” – a sequel to “ Searching for Mexico” last year, Marie Claire reported.

Work keeps the couple in Europe, Mexico and South America, and Longoria no longer tends to shoot projects in Los Angeles — and she said she doesn’t miss it.

“But even before the pandemic, it was changing,” Longoria said of Los Angeles. “The atmosphere was different. And then COVID happened, and it pushed it over the edge. Whether it’s the homelessness or the taxes, not that I want to talk about California – it just feels like this chapter in my life is now over.

“I’m privileged,” Longoria added. “I can escape and go somewhere. Most Americans aren’t so lucky. They will be stuck in this dystopian country, and my fear and sadness are for them.”