{"id":37021,"date":"2025-11-12T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/37021\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T12:56:00","slug":"jack-schlossberg-jfks-grandson-and-social-media-influencer-to-run-for-congress-in-key-manhattan-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/37021\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Schlossberg, JFK’s grandson and social media influencer, to run for Congress in key Manhattan district"},"content":{"rendered":"

John F. Kennedy\u2019s grandson Jack Schlossberg is running for the U.S. House next year, announcing Tuesday that he\u2019s seeking a key New York seat set to be vacated by longtime Democratic Rep.\u00a0Jerry Nadler<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis district should have a representative who can harness the creativity, energy and drive of this district and translate that into political power in Washington,\u201d Schlossberg said in a campaign video posted on social media late Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In an email to supporters, Schlossberg, a Democrat, said that his campaign will officially launch on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Schlossberg has drummed up a large following on social media with frequent posts weighing in on national issues, including taking aim at his cousin, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/p>\n

Last month, he posted on Instagram<\/a> an image of a Halloween costume for \u201cMAHA Man,\u201d in reference to Kennedy\u2019s\u00a0Make America Healthy Again<\/a>\u00a0message and described it as including such things as measles.<\/p>\n

Nadler<\/a>, who is serving his 17th term in Congress, announced in September that he will not run for reelection next year, suggesting to The New York Times that a younger Democratic lawmaker in his seat \u201ccan maybe do better, can maybe help us more.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 12th District includes Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side, Upper East Side and midtown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John F. Kennedy\u2019s grandson Jack Schlossberg is running for the U.S. House next year, announcing Tuesday that he\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[858,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-37021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-congress","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-manhattan-headlines","11":"tag-manhattan-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}