JFK’s Grandson Jack Schlossberg Announces Run for Congress

Jack Schlossberg is running for the seat currently held by Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) in New York’s 12th Congressional District.

Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of the late former President John F. Kennedy, said on Nov. 11 that he intends to run for the U.S. Congress to represent New York City.

Schlossberg—son of JFK’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and designer-artist Edwin Schlossberg—announced his candidacy in a social media video, saying that he hopes to represent the district where he was born and raised.

The 32-year-old is running for the seat currently held by Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) in New York’s 12th Congressional District.

“This district should have a representative who can harness the creativity, energy, and drive of this district and translate that into political power in Washington,” he said in the campaign video.

Schlossberg warned that the United States is at “a turning point” and facing “a crisis at every level,” citing the rising cost of living and government cuts to social programs for health care and education.

“It’s 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.