Paul Ryan is worried about the upcoming presidential election. In 2012, Mitt Romney emerged from a protracted Republican primary contest wounded, and despite the party’s efforts to reform the process — compressing the calendar, reducing the number of debates, and moving up the nominating convention — Ryan has a sinking sense of déjà vu. “Mitt didn’t get his general-election campaign up and running until late summer,” says Ryan, who became speaker of the house in late October, just over three years after he was announced as Romney’s 2012 running mate. “It’s too late by then … I see a repeat if we don’t get it right.”

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