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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to endorse Jack Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy's grandson, successful the Democratic superior contention for New York's 12th Congressional District, a root acquainted confirmed to CBS News Saturday.
The endorsement has been successful the works for weeks, a idiosyncratic acquainted said, but has not yet been announced publicly.
The 33-year-old Schlossberg, the lad of Caroline Kennedy and archetypal relative of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced his run successful November.
Jack Schlossberg, grandson of precocious President John. F Kennedy, speaks to members of the New York State Nurses Association extracurricular Mount Sinai West connected Jan. 12, 2026, successful New York City.
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The online governmental commentator joined a highly competitory tract of Democratic candidates warring to regenerate retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler. The tract includes authorities Assemblymen Alex Bores and Micah Lasher, arsenic good arsenic lawyer George Conway and writer Jami Floyd.
Schlossberg campaigned with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris successful the 2024 predetermination rhythm successful an effort to assistance them link with young voters, and is moving a progressive run with an accent connected societal media.
If helium wins, Schlossberg would beryllium astatine slightest the seventh subordinate of the extended Kennedy household to service successful Congress.
New York's 12th Congressional District is simply a wealthy, Democratic-leaning area, made up of Manhattan's Midtown, Upper East Side, and Upper West Side.
The New York Times was archetypal to study the quality of Pelosi's planned endorsement.
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