Jack Schlossberg Echoes Line from Sister Tatiana’s Final Essay as He Returns to Campaign Trail 2 Weeks After Her Death

Jack Schlossberg is back on the campaign trail, drawing on the words of his late sister, Tatiana Schlossberg, as he resumes his congressional bid two weeks after her death at 35.

On Monday, Jan. 12, the 32-year-old Democrat joined a rally with the New York State Nurses Association as the union strikes for higher pay and improved working conditions, per ABC 7 New York.

In a video posted to his Instagram, Jack spoke through a bullhorn and said, “Nurses should rule the world, if you ask me.”

“Nothing is more important than supporting our nurses,” he continued. “I’m running for Congress because nurses deserve a fair shot.”

He also wrote in his caption: “Proud to stand with @nynurses today. Nurses deserve more than our thanks — they deserve a fair contract, safe working conditions and healthcare benefits.”

Tatiana died on Dec. 30, about a month after she revealed she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in a deeply personal essay published by The New Yorker. In that piece, she argued plainly: “Nurses should take over.”

In her final essay, titled “A Battle with My Blood,” the environmental journalist reflected on the 2024 birth of her daughter, Josephine, which led doctors to discover her illness. Tatiana — who also shared 3-year-old son Edwin with her husband, George Moran — described more than a year of grueling treatment and underscored how much her nurses mattered throughout it.

“The nurses brought me warm blankets and let me sit on the floor of the skyway with my son, even though I wasn’t supposed to leave my room,” she wrote of her hospitalization at New York City’s Columbia-Presbyterian. “They ate up the gossip that I gathered; they looked the other way when they saw that I had a contraband teakettle and toaster.”

“They told me about their kids and their dating lives and their first trips to Europe,” she continued. “I have never encountered a group of people who are more competent, more full of grace and empathy, more willing to serve others than nurses. Nurses should take over.”

Hours after the essay was published, Jack shared a screenshot of it — along with the link — on his Instagram Story. He also posted a screenshot of the opening paragraph, then later added a short message that appeared to echo her urgency.

“Life is short — let it rip,” he wrote over a close-up photo that appeared to show a road. He shared the same line again, this time over an image of the sky.

In her essay, published on the anniversary of her grandfather John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Tatiana also expressed gratitude for Jack, their sister Rose, 37, and their parents, Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg.

“My parents and my brother and sister, too, have been raising my children and sitting in my various hospital rooms almost every day for the last year and a half,” Tatiana wrote in November. “They have held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered, trying not to show their pain and sadness in order to protect me from it.”

“This has been a great gift, even though I feel their pain every day,” she added.

Jack announced his campaign in a Nov. 11 email to supporters and in an interview with The New York Times, following news that longtime New York Rep. Jerry Nadler would retire.

He paused his public campaigning after Tatiana’s death and attended her funeral service on Monday, Jan. 5, alongside other members of the extended political family, including Maria Shriver and Kerry Kennedy.

Former President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State John Kerry, television veteran David Letterman, Tatiana’s wedding dress designer Carolina Herrera, and The New Yorker editor David Remnick were among the other public figures in attendance.

The service was held at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola on Manhattan’s Upper East Side — the same venue where the siblings’ grandmother, Jackie Kennedy, was honored 32 years earlier.