Schlossberg's Defeat Dampens Dream of a Renewed Camelot [View all]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/nyregion/schlossberg-loses-camelot.html

Schlossberg’s Defeat Dampens Dream of a Renewed Camelot
Jack Schlossberg fell well short of his bid to win a highly contested Democratic primary in Manhattan, his campaign hurt by staff defections and missed meetings.
By Jesse McKinley and Tim Balk
Published June 23, 2026

Standing backstage at a darkened, half-filled club in Midtown Manhattan, Caroline Kennedy tried to seem cheerful on Tuesday night, even as it became apparent that her son, Jack Schlossberg, would fall far short in his bid to win a House seat.

Minutes earlier, the crowd — perhaps a hundred supporters, many young and some from outside the New York City district Mr. Schlossberg had hoped to represent — sat mostly quiet as Mr. Schlossberg rushed through a brief speech, reading from a stack of papers. He joked about his age, led a chant of “Let’s go, Jack” and nodded to perhaps the most famous quote from his grandfather, John F. Kennedy.

“All of us asked not what our country can do,” Mr. Schlossberg said as he finished his speech, “and what we can do to help our city.”

For a first-time candidate, Mr. Schlossberg seemingly had it all: a scion of the Kennedy family, once America’s most famous political brand. Young and handsome, much like his grandfather, the progenitor of Camelot.

He was well connected, earning endorsements from Democratic royalty like the former House speaker Nancy Pelosi, and old-money rich, able to pour his own fortune into a campaign he said was, in part, about the evils of money in politics.

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Harley Leiber
Portland OR · 12m ago

Camelot. What was it? They were from another era. Another period. Yes, we love them, but we moved on. I wish the media would. Jack, Teddy, Bobby were all, in their own way, great men. But now we're dealing with the stain of RFK Jr. His mere presence is stain on their legacy. Jack Schlossberg will need to make his own way. Work for a nonprofit for 5 years, then come back.


Eugene O Neill
New Jersey · 13m ago

Jack Schlossberg is a gadfly with absolutely no experience in public service. He is a trust fund baby with Kennedy lineage — hence, $1 million of his inheritance spent on his quixotic run — and while his intentions may have been genuine, the mechanics of his campaign were a window into his administrative skills: He has none.

AZ
VA · 13m ago

Fawning over a vacuous social media “influencer’ with a Kennedy name apparently wasn’t enough to get voters to turn out. Wisdom prevailed.