The White House on Thursday will promote a movie about “Hot Cheetos” directed by Eva Longoria, a prominent Democratic donor with ties to President Biden.
longoria movie, Flaming Hot, will be screened Thursday night on the South Lawn at an event open to the press. The film is based on the memoir of Richard Montañez, who said he invented the “flamin’ hot Cheeto” while working as a janitor at Frito-Lay, but didn’t get credit, claims the company disputes.
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The White House on Thursday will promote a movie about “Hot Cheetos” directed by Eva Longoria, a prominent Democratic donor with ties to President Biden. (Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images and photo by James Devaney/GC Images, respectively)
The White House projection is the latest in a series of moves by Longoria to raise her political profile within the Democratic Party. Longoria hosted the first night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention and openly campaigned for Biden. She was the national co-chair of President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.
Longoria co-founded the Latino Victory Fund in 2014, an organization it says is “dedicated to building political power in the Latino community so that the voices and values of Latinos are reflected at all levels of government.” The organization’s PAC during the 2020 election cycle spent $9,118,302 on behalf of Biden’s presidential campaign, which accounted for 89% of its independent expenditures, according to Open Secrets.
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Eva Longoria’s project, Flaming Hotwill be screened Thursday night on the South Lawn at an event open to the press. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Biden appointed Nathalie Rayes, CEO of the Latino Victory Fund, as ambassador to Croatia in May.
The White House declined to answer questions about the screening of the film.
Longoria has personally given $713,723 to Democratic candidates and groups from 2011 to 2020, according to a Fox News Digital analysis of Federal Election Commission data. That includes $168,570 donated to the Hillary Victory Fund and $40,800 to groups associated with President Obama.
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Eva Longoria has personally given $713,723 to Democratic candidates and groups from 2011 to 2020, according to a Fox Digital analysis of Federal Election Commission data. (Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images)
Longoria rose to fame as an actress for her role in Desperate housewives.
Flaming Hot debuted on Hulu and Disney+ on June 9.
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There is no proof that Montañez, the film’s main character, invented the “Flamin’ Hot Cheeto,” according to a Los Angeles Times story based on Frito-Lay’s archival record and interviews with more than ‘a dozen old Frito-Lays. employees
