The Chargers flexed their muscle in a critical three-game winning streak that vaulted them from seventh in the AFC to fifth.

But Carter’s victory there vaulted him to front-runner status — and Iowa into a major role in presidential nominations.

For example, archaeologist Cédric Moulis of the University of Lorraine painstakingly reassembled dozens of wedge-shaped stones called voussoirs recovered from the collapsed vaulted ceiling over the nave to glean insights into their mechanical properties.

He vaulted up on to the back of the lead group by delaying his first stop, and passed Norris shortly after it.

That same enthusiasm vaulted Lurie, a centrist Democrat who has never held elected office, to an upset victory this month in his mayoral bid against incumbent London Breed and three other City Hall veterans.