Up-and-coming Democrat Jack Schlossberg thinks the 2026 midterm elections is perhaps the “final likelihood to cease” President Donald Trump.
The grandson of late President John F. Kennedy and present congressional candidate laid out the stakes whereas appearing on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” on Tuesday.
Requested why he needed to get into the “ugly enterprise” of politics at such a tumultuous time, Schlossberg advised anchor Willie Geist, “America is popping 250 years previous this 12 months and I’m a non secular particular person and I feel its coming at this second for a motive. We’re at a crossroads.”
“I ask myself, as I take into account the place we’re at present, in gentle of the place we got here from, what occurred?” he puzzled, noting how folks’s confidence within the authorities is at an all-time low.
“I’m working proper now as a result of I nonetheless imagine in politics,” Schlossberg continued. “I nonetheless imagine politics is a noble career and I nonetheless imagine in a future that appears approach higher than the current second we’re dwelling by way of.”
The 33-year-old political scion additionally mentioned it was time for brand spanking new leaders to tackle Washington D.C.: “Persons are additionally sick and bored with being sick and bored with this president and so they wish to ship a brand new technology to Congress that is aware of find out how to struggle and likewise find out how to win, as a result of we have to ship.”
“If we don’t win this election and Democrats don’t take again the Home, we won’t get one other likelihood to cease Trump,” he went on.
“And we don’t know what comes with the opposite aspect of that,” Schlossberg continued. “So, lots of people, on this district, are very involved about stopping Trump proper now,” he mentioned of the New York Metropolis district the place he’s in search of Rep. Jerry Nadler’s (D-N.Y.) seat.
Schlossberg, who announced his bid for office final November, publicized a high-profile Democratic endorsement that very same Tuesday.
In a statement from former Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) posted to X, the Democratic heavyweight heralded Schlossberg’s “ardour for fixing issues — notably his means to have interaction and encourage younger folks — and mentioned there may be unimaginable pleasure round his candidacy.”
