Its interesting that most (all?) of the examples of Rs carpetbagging cited here are in CA. When I think carpetbagging, I mostly think Ds running in D districts having nothing to do with them. Examples include several Kennedys, Hillary (ok, a senator), and numerous local NYers.
tom macarthur comes to mind, he’s from morris county and moved to toms river in 2014 to run after the seat became open, and he repeatedly accused andy kim (who’s actually from south jersey) of carpetbagging in 2018. ultimate projection
