BUFFALO, N.Y.—It’s the most radioactive issue in all of politics right now. Just ask Newt Gingrich.
The newly minted presidential candidate had to retreat after an appearance last Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press in which he dismissed a plan by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to revamp Medicare as “right-wing social engineering.”
Yet Gingrich’s warnings about the proposal’s political impact may look prophetic if the GOP can’t hold one of the most Republican congressional districts in New York in a May 24 special election.
The newly minted presidential candidate had to retreat after an appearance last Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press in which he dismissed a plan by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to revamp Medicare as “right-wing social engineering.”
Yet Gingrich’s warnings about the proposal’s political impact may look prophetic if the GOP can’t hold one of the most Republican congressional districts in New York in a May 24 special election.