Jack Schlossberg, the Kennedy Running for Congress in New York

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🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The candidate admits that his social-media influence may not look like a “quote-unquote real job” to some people—but argues that it’s what the Democratic Party needs.

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0:44.8	Even now, the Kennedy family appears in the media as the nation's royal family,
0:50.6	a mix of political power and celebrity legacy as persistent in the modern American story
0:56.0	as the tutors and the plantagenets were in Shakespeare's history plays.
1:01.5	Six members of the family served in Congress. President John F. Kennedy remains a revered
1:07.3	figure and his brother Robert F. Kennedy was likely on his way to the White House
1:11.4	when he, too, was assassinated. Bobby's son, a Kennedy of a very different ideological stripe,
1:18.6	was running for president when he opted for an alliance with Donald Trump in exchange for a
1:24.1	cabinet post running health and human services. And you know what that's entailed.
1:29.3	Several Kennedy family members have spoken out
1:31.5	against R of K's policies and his character,
1:34.6	including his cousin, Jack Schlossberg.
1:38.2	Schlossberg, who has a law and business degree from Harvard,
1:41.4	became a public figure through social media,
1:45.8	occasionally trolling the right,
1:52.3	like when he claimed that Usha Vance was carrying his child. But when Schlossberg decided to run for Congress, the attention became a lot more focused and more critical. Recent reporting in the New
1:58.0	York Times suggested that he was not only inexperienced in politics,
2:02.3	but unprofessional as a candidate, and that's a conclusion that Schlossberg disputes and will discuss.
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