JFK Grandson, Jack Schlossberg, Hammered by Negative Media

The race for Rep. Jerry Nadler’s (D-NY) congressional seat is working sizzling and heavy. This makes good sense if one appears at who’s working to switch him. Nadler has been representing New York’s twelfth congressional district for 33 years. There are some indicators that the one grandson of President John F. Kennedy, Jack Schlossberg, will choose up the place Nadler left off – however that’s hardly a certainty.

Schlossberg involves the race with no expertise in public workplace and sports activities a skinny resume (each private and non-private). However he arrives with two key components a politician wants: buckets full of cash and title recognition.

It’s a curious race, to make sure. New York’s twelfth is a tony district representing the Higher East and West Sides of Manhattan, Chelsea, Gramercy, and Hell’s Kitchen. It additionally carries the excellence of getting the biggest Jewish inhabitants in a congressional district nationwide.  

There isn’t a scarcity of candidates working for the congressional seat within the Democratic Occasion major. They embrace Nadler’s hand-picked candidate, Micah Lasher, Higher East Aspect assemblyman Alex Bores, the TDS-stricken George Conway (now divorced from Kellyanne), and Jack Schlossberg, who’s being characterised by the New York media as a “social media titan.” Republicans are roadkill on this darkish blue district, so the congressional prize will seemingly be decided within the June 23 Democratic Occasion major.

Unsurprisingly, there may be not a variety of coverage daylight between the candidates, so it’s changing into a little bit of a magnificence contest, and that’s maybe the place a Kennedy shines finest. In accordance with the Every day Information, citing John Mollenkopf, a Metropolis College of New York professor, “The man has that Kennedy mystique. He’s good-looking, he’s articulate and perhaps that’s adequate.”

It was a bit shocking that The New York Occasions hit Schlossberg fairly exhausting this week in a prolonged article titled: “Inside Jack Schlossberg’s Chaotic Marketing campaign to Revive Camelot.” The Occasions creator, Nicholas Fandos, took intention on the “chaotic” marketing campaign and the 33-year-old himself. He wrote about situations wherein Schlossberg appeared mercurial and unfocused, even intimating that he was performing extra like a spoiled socialite than a congressional candidate. The article claimed that Schlossberg took naps at inopportune occasions. It homed in on the excessive turnover charge of his marketing campaign employees, which they characterised as churning “by employees at a head-turning tempo.” Different criticisms embrace Schlossberg’s seemingly “erratic” conduct as a result of he “… made a behavior of disappearing for lengthy stretches with little discover or clarification.”

The JFK Grandson Issue

The Kennedy household continues to be affected by tragedy, even within the Schlossberg technology. Jack’s sister Tatiana handed away on the younger age of 35 from Leukemia in 2025. He mentioned this seismic occasion in his life on social media. He additionally used his platform as a direct descendant of JFK to mercilessly criticize his first cousin, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The Every day Beast joined the refrain of detractors, saying, “Schlossberg constructed an internet following with vicious takedowns of his cousin, Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”

The race seems to be a good one. The most recent ballot has Lasher up eight factors on the remainder of the Democratic area, with Schlossberg coming in second. Nevertheless, the ballot, carried out by Honan Technique Group, solely surveyed 300 seemingly major voters. In accordance with a Politico memo, “Public polling is scarce within the race, and inner polls from earlier this 12 months didn’t present a transparent frontrunner. Some had Schlossberg with a slight lead.” Nonetheless, 23% of these polled stay undecided.

Jack Schlossberg definitely involves the general public sq. with a number of decidedly clear benefits – his heritage is one in every of them. However it stays unsure whether or not he’s inheritor to extra than simply cash, or whether or not he carries the household mantle of somebody who can run and win.