Jack Schlossberg is ready to join the family business.
The grandson of slain former President John F. Kennedy, announced he is running to represent New York’s 12th Congressional District, CNN reported.
Schlossberg announced his candidacy on a video, stating, the “country is at a turning point.”
“It’s a crisis at every level, a cost-of-living crisis sponsored by the big, beautiful bill, historic cuts to social programs working families rely on health care, education, childcare, a corruption crisis,” Schlossberg said.
He criticized the power President Donald Trump wields.
“He’s picking winners and losers from inside the Oval Office, it’s cronyism, not capitalism and a constitutional crisis with one dangerous man in control of all three branches of government, he’s stripping citizens of their civil rights and silencing his critics,” Schlossberg said.
Schlossberg is running to replace Rep. Jerry Nadler, who is retiring.
Schlossberg spoke of having been “born and raised” in the district. The district runs from Union Square up through Midtown and then to the Upper West and Upper East sides.
“I took the bus to school every single day from one side of the district to the other,” Schlossberg said as he attended the private Collegiate School in New York.
Before making his announcement, Schlossberg told CNN he is a Democrat who represents “a new generation.”
He has become known got his posts and videos on social media.
He believes this is will be useful on communicating with you her constituents.
“In this toxic polluted media environment we are in — I breathe that air,” he said to CNN.
The 32-year-old is the youngest child of Caroline Kennedy and her husband Edwin Schlossberg.
He told CNN he would pay homage to his grandfather “organically,” adding the 35th president “broke the mold.”
If elected, Schlossberg will be part of the three generations of Kennedys who were elected into office.
His mother’s cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is currently the Health and Human Services secretary.
He faces opposition from Assemblyman Micah Lasher, who has received Nadler’s backing, plus Liam Elkind, who started an organization during the COVID-19 pandemic which delivered food and medicine.
