Jack Schlossberg, the only grandson of the late President John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy Onassis, announced Tuesday night that he's running for U.S. Congress.

The 32-year-old son of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg said he's running for the New York City seat long held by U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., who in September announced he will retire.

"I’m running for Congress to represent my home, New York’s 12th congressional district, where I was born and raised, where I took the bus to school every single day from one side of the district to the other," Schlossberg said in a video announcing his candidacy .

"This is the best part of the greatest city on Earth," he said.

Schlossberg's politics fall within the family tradition of allegiance to the Democratic Party. He has deve

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