CNN —
There are two Republican primaries as an election season that defies conventional metrics and campaign trail traditions crashes into its fall stretch.
There’s the one-man race involving Donald Trump, a former president polling higher than all his rivals put together but whose onrushing train of criminal trials increases the possibility that the GOP could nominate a convicted felon.
Well below is the contest in which one candidate in the teens, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis – and everyone else in the single digits – aren’t piling on the front-runner, but instead the political neophyte Vivek Ramaswamy, who has gotten under their skins and is making