Every great political fightback begins the same way: someone, usually many someones, tells the candidate they are finished. The consultants. The press. The polls. The online bros who have never won a single thing in their lives. Ken Paxton was told to step away after the first round of voting in Texas. Instead, he organized, rallied, outflanked his opponent John Cornyn on the Save America Act, and stormed back to win the runoff.