JFK’s grandson Jack Schlossberg slammed for hitting out at Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed

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Jack Schlossberg claimed that his grandfather, President Kennedy, ‘ran on policy and took questions on religion’

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Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of former President Kennedy, has been slammed online for his remarks about U.S. Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed.

​El-Sayed, who is set to become the first Muslim American elected to the U.S. Senate, swept to victory in Michigan last week when the country headed to the polls for the midterm elections.

​On the campaign trail, El-Sayed frequently compared skepticism around his own faith to anxieties around Kennedy’s Catholic faith amid the latter’s presidential campaign.

​However, political commentator Schlossberg took aim at El-Sayed’s invocation of Kennedy in a pointed social media post uploaded late on Sunday.

​“Senator-elect El Sayed (sic) invoked JFK’s faith to compare his election to that of the first Catholic president,” Schlossberg wrote on X. “JFK ran on policy and took questions on religion. Abdul did the opposite.”

​Before his election, Kennedy had been met with much skepticism over the fact that he could become the United States’ first Catholic president.

​“I am not the Catholic candidate for president,” he famously said. “I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for president, who happens also to be a Catholic.”

​El-Sayed seemingly referenced Kennedy’s historic quote in his own campaign, telling an audience member at a town hall: “I’m not running to be a Muslim senator. I’m running for the U.S. Senate and happen to be Muslim.”

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