Oh, absolutely bad optics regardless. I had no intent to negate your comment by posting mine. I think I had meant to put it at base level instead of as a response.

The party’s sense of optics long ago took a back seat to its cult of subservience and power structure. That may have been somewhat viable back when they could count on the major TV networks and many of the foremost newspapers to mostly give them the type of coverage they would prefer. Things don’t work like they used to. And anyone who works for any media at all knows a whole lot of registered Democrats who are beyond fed up with the top-down tactics.