Gregory Svirnovskiy of Politico has a very special gift of being able to ignore the more than obvious elephants in the room. This was on full display on Wednesday when he wrote about Jack Kennedy Schlossberg announcing his candidacy for the New York congressional seat now held by by retiring Congressman Jerry Nadler in "Schlossberg officially launches New York House campaign."
One of the elephants in the room is Schlossberg's almost non-existent work history at the age of 32 which Svirnovskiy seems either unaware of or just ignores:
Jack Schlossberg officially entered the race to fill an open New York City House seat on Wednesday, the latest in a long line of Kennedys to join the political arena.
A Democratic influencer and grandson of former President John F. Kennedy, Schlossberg has cultivated a dedicated following on social media in recent years and recently served as a political correspondent at Vogue ahead of the 2024 election. Now, he hopes to parlay his notoriety into a successful campaign for a deep-blue New York House seat being vacated by the dean of New York’s congressional delegation, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.). Nadler announced his plans not to seek reelection in September.
Um, Greg. Did you check on how much work Schlossberg actually did for Vogue? According to Grok, that "work" amounted to TWO whole articles in 2024 and none since then. To put that in proper perspective that is even less of a work load than that produced by Politico's former lethargic labor reporter, Mike Elk, who managed to muster up a grand total of five articles while attempting to unionize that news organization in order to ease the hard labor conditions that he claimed unfairly burdened him.
A little skepticism entered in:
But while Schlossberg boasts prodigious skill on social media, alongside more than 1.5 million followers on TikTok and Instagram, he’s far from the favorite in the coming Democratic primary for the House seat.
And that was as close as Svirnovskiy came to alluding to the yuge elephant in the room, namely Schlossberg's many sanity-challenged TikTok videos. Here is just a sampling of a few such as Schlossberg wearing a blonde wig pretending to channel Melania Trump on August 17, 2025:
JFK’s grandson announces he is running for Congress.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) November 12, 2025
Jack Schlossberg, who recently mocked Melania Trump while wearing a blonde wig, has announced he is running as a Democratic candidate for New York’s 12th Congressional District.
The district is currently represented by Rep.… pic.twitter.com/eQLxCHleys
Schlossberg's TikTok body of work has been prodigious with hundreds of videos not only as bizarre as the one above but cruel as well such as the following video in which he mocks the vocal impediment of his cousin, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.:
JFK’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, posted a video mocking RFK Jr’s spasmodic dysphonia.
— End Tribalism in Politics (@EndTribalism) January 17, 2025
It’s always nice to see the “tolerant” left show just how intolerant they are to people they disagree with.
Pathetic. pic.twitter.com/TYtUMBJiRA
Of course, if there had been a Republican candidate with even a small fraction of the number of deranged TikTok videos posted as Schlossberg one suspects Svirnovskiy, as a loyal Politico reporter, would have been all over it in detail. Instead he just completely ignored the deranged elephant in the room.
As to exiting Jerry Nadler, here is his observation about Schlossberg's supposed achievements as told to CNN's Kate Bolduan on September 4: "Well, there's nothing particularly good or bad about a Kennedy holding my seat. But the Kennedy, unlike Schlossberg, should be something with a record of public service, a record of public accomplishment, and he doesn't have one. And so, I don't think he's going to be a candidate in the end, and he certainly is not going to be a major candidate."
