Jack Schlossberg Says He Talks to Late Sister Tatiana 'Every Day' as He Opens Up About What He Misses Most (Exclusive)
Jack Schlossberg Says He Talks to Late Sister Tatiana 'Every Day' as He Opens Up About What He Misses Most (Exclusive)
Juliet Pennington, Joseph KonigWed, June 10, 2026 at 3:04 PM UTC
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Jack Schlossberg on June 8, 2026; Tatiana Schlossberg on Sept. 5, 2019Credit: Roy Rochlin/Getty; Craig Barritt/Getty -
As he campaigns for Congress, Jack Schlossberg tells PEOPLE he is drawing inspiration from his late sister, Tatiana Schlossberg
The grandson of President John F. Kennedy tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview that he knows "for a fact" Tatiana would be proud of him "because I talk to her every day"
Jack's older sister died in December 2025 at 35 after battling acute myeloid leukemia, a blood cancer
As he campaigns for Congress, Jack Schlossberg tells PEOPLE he is drawing inspiration from his older sister Tatiana Schlossberg, who died late last year, and that he knows "for a fact" she would be proud of him "because I talk to her every day."
The grandson of President John F. Kennedy says in an exclusive interview that while "it's really hard" to campaign after losing his sister just months ago, "she wanted me to make sure that I was gonna fight back as hard as I possibly could."
"I'm fighting for her and with her by my side every single day," Jack, 33, says.
Tatiana, an environmental journalist, died in December 2025 at 35 after opening up about her grueling battle with acute myeloid leukemia. She shared two young children — 4-year-old son Edwin and 2-year-old daughter Josephine — with her husband, George Moran.
Jack notes that his nephew and niece "both make me laugh my head off, just like she did," while revealing to PEOPLE that his parents, Caroline Kennedy, 68, and Ed Schlossberg, 80, have moved in with Moran and their grandchildren to help care for them following Tatiana's passing.
Jack and Tatiana Schlossberg at Caroline Kennedy's confirmation hearing to be U.S. ambassador to Japan on Sept. 9, 2013Credit: ImageCatcher News Service/Corbis via Getty
"The thing I miss most about Tatiana is, I mean, there's so many things that happen every day that she would just laugh at alongside me, and we wouldn't have to explain to each other why," Jack says. "And it's just those kinds of things like with a best friend where you know what each other's thinking."
"She was as smart as a whip, and so she would have been able to help me with debate prep and stuff like that," he adds, saying that he thinks "the last debate went really, really well, and I wiped the floor with the other guys."
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Tatiana Schlossberg attends a New York Magazine event on Sept. 5, 2019.Credit: Craig Barritt/Getty Images
In a March interview with CBS News Sunday Morning, Jack said his sister's last wish for him was that he win a seat in Congress. He launched a campaign for New York's 12th Congressional District in Manhattan in November, just weeks before she passed.
"The last thing that she said to me was, 'You better win,' " Jack told the outlet. "No one knew me better, and I knew no one better than her."
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Jack said that him, Tatiana and their 37-year-old sister Rose Schlossberg were all tight-knit. "When you talk about what family is," he said in the March interview, "it's me, my sisters, my parents. We're a unit, and we're really close."
Tatiana Schlossberg attends her book signing in San Francisco on Nov. 16, 2019Credit: Amber De Vos/Getty
The crowded Democratic primary is nearing a conclusion with early voting set to begin on Saturday, June 13, before primary day on Tuesday, June 23. Public polling from May showed Schlossberg among the top of the pack, but trailing behind New York state Assemblymen Micah Lasher and Alex Bores.
Jack says Tatiana — "the sweetest, nicest person ever" — "hated Republican billionaires. And she knew that the guys I was running against were really dangerous, bad, dirty, dirty people."
Prince William tours the JFK Presidential Library and Museum with Caroline Kennedy, Jack Schlossberg and Tatiana Schlossberg on Dec. 2, 2022Credit: MATT STONE/POOL/AFP via Getty
Jack has taken aim at his rivals in the primary as well as The New York Times, where his journalist sister once worked, over his frustration with critical coverage that he views as unfair.
In May, the Timesreported that the first-time political candidate's campaign was subject to chaos fueled in part by Jack's unexplained disappearances. He has been pushing back on the report, mocking them as "false" and politically motivated.
"It didn't describe reality that I could recognize as anything to do with my own [campaign]," Jack tells PEOPLE. "That was a hatchet job, hit piece on the front page, by the people at the top, trying to kill our campaign after we'd been in the leading the polls for a month."
At a recent congressional debate on Tuesday, June 9, hosted by Spectrum News NY1, Jack pitched himself as the candidate who "is going to be able to galvanize the support of young people" and build a "political movement" to take on President Donald Trump.
He also hit back at Lasher, a former aide to N.Y.C. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, for invoking JFK's legacy during the debate and calling attention to Jack's limited government experience.
"I'm sorry, but I don't need a lecture on the contributions of the Kennedy family to American politics, especially from you, Mr. Lasher," Jack said. "I'm on this stage in my own right as my own man. I am Jack Schlossberg."
"I have made my way here myself. And your public record is great. Run on it," he continued. "But do not ever invoke my family name to try to denigrate who I am and the person that I am."
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