carpetbagger

Opponents have painted Democratic Rep. Josh Harder of Turlock as a Bay Area carpetbagger backed by San Francisco elites and tech moguls.

As far as some Virginians were concerned, he was also an integrationist carpetbagger.

There were times when fans were skeptical of “carpetbagger country.”

That will be no mean feat in a district where she is already facing the “carpetbagger” aspersion.

Democrats have branded Hovde as a carpetbagger who left his California mansion to run for Senate in Wisconsin, where he was born and raised.