Parkland survivor jumps into crowded NYC House race as Gen Z progressives challenge party elders

By Fox News · Fox News

John F. Kennedy's grandson Jack Schlossberg picked up plenty of national attention when he launched a congressional campaign to replace retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., but the content creator is far from the only young, progressive candidate vying to represent the Big Apple in the U.S. House of Representatives. Democratic activist Cameron Kasky, 25, launched a campaign on Tuesday for New York's 12th Congressional District, joining an already crowded field of Democratic primary contenders. Kasky is jumping into the race as progressives across the U.S., especially in New York City, seek to seize Democrats' success in the 2025 races, including gubernatorial wins in New Jersey and Virginia and 34-year-old socialist Zohran Mamdani taking the helm of the largest city in America. "New Yorkers are always on the move, reaching new heights, and rushing towards the future, but today's leaders just can't keep up," Kasky said in his announcement video, while walking through a busy New York City between jump cuts of the Gen-Z activist riding public transportation. CAMELOT OR CRINGE?: MEET JFK'S GRANDSON TURNED CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE FOR THE SCROLLING GENERATION The video is reminiscent in tone and style to Mamdani's own jumpy and cinematic-forward videos, with Kasky's political campaign debut scripted over a jazzy musical ensemble. SOCIALIST WAVE SPREADS COAST TO COAST AS PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS RALLY AROUND ZOHRAN MAMDANI'S NYC WIN "I'm Cameron Kasky, and I'm running for Congress because it feels like our party has no future, so we need to invest in a new generation of leaders to take on the fight. Kasky said "he never dreamed" of getting into politics, but after surviving a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida , in 2018, and later leading the March For Our Lives, a student-led organization supporting gun control legislation, he said he learned "the hard way" that it happened because of the "American system," he now seeks to dismantle. H…