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There was actually a congressional district that D+10 but the 3 hispanics split the democrat vote and this relatively good Republican there named Miller I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Miller

In 2005, Miller cosponsored the Border Protection, Anti-terrorism and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 (H.R. 4437) with representative Jim Sensenbrenner. In 2006, after widespread demonstrations by immigrants, Miller wrote: “Too bad their protest didn’t include giving up government-paid social services—because a day without illegal aliens would be a boon to U.S. taxpayers.”[24]
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On paper, Miller faced daunting odds. He was running in a district that he had never represented before, had a sizable Democratic lean and was majority-Hispanic. Had it existed in 2008, Barack Obama would have won it with 56 percent of the vote. However, due to California’s new “top-two” primary system, the three Democrats in the field split the vote, allowing Miller to come in first with only 27 percent of the vote while a fellow Republican, State Senator Bob Dutton came in second with 25 percent while three Democrats split the remaining 48 percent of the vote. In the general election, Miller defeated Dutton with 55 percent of the vote.

http://www.fairvote.org/fix-the-top-two-primary-admirable-goals-dont-justify-indefensible-outcomes

Even worse, the key statewide contest for controller nearly advanced two Republicans despite Republicans collectively only capturing 45% of the vote.