NEW YORK — Congressional candidate Jack Schlossberg said his estranged cousin, MAGA surrogate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., came to him in a dream with words of encouragement.

“He was saying ‘good job, you’re going to win,'” Schlossberg claimed in a new Politico interview.

Schlossberg, 33, was pointedly critical of his first cousin once removed when Kennedy ran for president in 2024 before endorsing Republican nominee Donald Trump and becoming the Trump administration’s Health and Human Services Secretary.

“I know him. I have no idea why anyone thinks he should be president,” Schlossberg said in 2023. “What I do know is his candidacy is an embarrassment.”

But Schlossberg told Politico on Wednesday that he’s happy to accept encouragement from the distant relative, whom he hasn’t seen in about 17 years, even if it came in a dream.

“Right before I passed the bar exam I had a dream where he told me I was going to pass the bar exam so it’s all good,” the Democratic candidate said.

Schlossberg admitted his revelation came as a surprise to people associated with his campaign to join the House of Representatives.

“Everyone is really freaked out about it up here,” he confessed.

Schlossberg is the grandson of former President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963. RFK Jr. is the son or Robert F. Kennedy, who was killed while running for office in 1968. The political scions — and many of their family members — were divided by the 2024 presidential election.

Schlossberg laid out his plan to run for office in a New York Daily News editorial published last week.

“I’m running to break the culture of politics that treats public office as a career path rather than a public trust,” he wrote.

Schlossberg is hoping to replace Rep. Jerry Nadler, 79, who’s retiring at the end of his 17th term in Congress.

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