By Steve Gorman<\/p>\n
(Reuters) -Jack Schlossberg, grandson of the 35th U.S. President, John F. Kennedy, plans to run for Congress next year, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, \u200bcontinuing the legacy of one of America’s most storied and tragedy-stricken political families.<\/p>\n
Schlossberg, 32, son of JFK’s \u200cdaughter and former diplomat Caroline Kennedy and the designer-artist Edwin Schlossberg, shared the news of his first bid for public office in an email to supporters on \u200cTuesday night, the Times said.<\/p>\n
He will be seeking the Democratic Party nomination for the Manhattan seat in the U.S. House of Representatives being vacated by retiring New York Democrat Jerrold Nadler, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n
A political commentator and writer whose work has been published in such news outlets as The Washington Post, Politico and Time magazine, Schlossberg joins a crowded field of contenders already vying for the 12th \u2060congressional district seat.<\/p>\n
Nadler, 78, announced in \u200cSeptember that he was retiring next year after more than 30 years in House, acknowledging a widespread clamor within the party to make way for a younger generation of leaders.<\/p>\n
Schlossberg’s decision comes as Democrats are \u200dhoping to regain control of the House in the 2026 midterm elections and thus a measure of legislative clout they currently lack in opposing the agenda of Republican President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
“There is nothing our party can\u2019t do to address costs of living, corruption and the constitutional crisis that we’re in,\u200b” Schlossberg was quoted as saying in an interview with the Times. “But without the control of Congress, \u200cthere\u2019s almost nothing that we can do.”<\/p>\n
The only grandson of JFK, who was assassinated in 1963, Schlossberg grabbed a moment in the Democratic spotlight on the second night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where he gave an in-person speech endorsing then-Vice President Kamala Harris in her bid for president.<\/p>\n
Some of Schlossberg’s critiques as a commentator have targeted his cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, whom Trump appointed as secretary of health and human services despite his vaccine skepticism and propagation of health policies at odds with \u2060science and the medical mainstream.<\/p>\n
Kennedy’s father, Robert F. Kennedy,\u200b who served as U.S. attorney general under JFK before he was elected \u200bto a U.S. Senate seat in New York, was himself assassinated in 1968 just after winning the Democratic presidential primary in California.<\/p>\n
Schlossberg’s entry into congressional politics follows the meteoric rise of another younger New \u200dYork millennial, Zohran Mamdani, \u206034, the state assemblyman who was elected last week as mayor of New York City.<\/p>\n
Like Mamdani, Schlossberg is known for his social media savvy, with more than 830,000 followers on TikTok, according to the Times.<\/p>\n
“If Zohran Mamdani \u2060and I have anything in common, it’s that we are both trying to be authentic versions of ourselves and meet people where they are and communicate \u200cwith people in New York City and be present and show up for people,” Schlossberg told the Times.<\/p>\n
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