There are plenty of celebrities that the Democratic Party likes for fundraising or publicity reasons that are Scientologists or Scientology-adjacent, so I really don't think the party apparatus minded. Saying vaguely nice things about Castro, like how people didn't die of preventable diseases or how they could read unlike under Batista, was way more disqualifying.
Not a good argument in her favor for sure, but the Cuba stuff got way more traction and thus I think was much more of a factor.
There are plenty of celebrities that the Democratic Party likes for fundraising or publicity reasons that are Scientologists or Scientology-adjacent, so I really don't think the party apparatus minded. Saying vaguely nice things about Castro, like how people didn't die of preventable diseases or how they could read unlike under Batista, was way more disqualifying.