Was reading about the Texas 23 district. Some far right Republican, Frank Lopez is running as an independent calling the incumbent Republican Tony Gonzalez a 'RINO.' Lopez is a fairly high profile retired U.S border agent. Although he hadn't raised much money as of June 30th, he seems to be regarded as a credible candidate.
It's also possible he could split the vote and allow the Democrat, John Lira, a retired Iraq War veteran, to come up the middle. Although it's said that Republicans had shored up all their Texas districts with the redistricting along with especially rural Latinos trending Republican, this reconfigured district still only went for Trump by 7% according to the article.
Then there is New York 10 where defeated primary candidate Democratic State Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou is considering running in the general election on the Working Families Party line. Unlike in Texas 23, I think it's extremely unlikely the Republican would get the minimum 33% of the vote required to come up the middle in a three way race (although there is also a low profile independent candidate running in the district.)
I don't know if there are any others. I suppose there could also be a Democrat or two in California who are running against Democratic incumbents who could win. In 2020, Dave Kim, who is running again, got 47% of the vote. However, that isn't what I asked.
For trivia purposes: While the city of Los Angeles has a very small number of city councilors relative to its population, the city also has 99 elected neighborhood councils. David Kim is an elected councilor for the neighborhood of MacArthur Park. Although Richard Harris made the song written by Jimmy Webb famous as "MacArthur's Park", the lyric was always "MacArthur Park" and this neighborhood really has a park where people really would 'leave the cake out in the rain.'
As explained by Jimmy Webb, 'as is common in Southern California, flash rains would come up out of nowhere and people having picnics in the park in MacArthur Park were often caught in the rain while eating cake.' The line was a comment on things people didn't think were important enough to finish or important enough to not leave behind.
About the song itself: it was regarded by some critics at the time of its release as 'the worst song of all time.' However, it was clearly because the song was so innovative that the critics didn't understand it. Since then, it helped inspire rock opera songs like those of Meatloaf, and MacArthur Park is now referred to by critics as 'the best worst song of all time.'
