I would have assumed sbe was conservative after watcing her all these years but then I saw the Trump Derangement Syndrome from her and her support of Biden. IIRC she may have even supported Obama in 2008 and 2012...
She thinks the Democrats are, or could still be, the party of Ed Koch, who appointed her as a judge originally, and I guess that she believed she was rescuing the party from Bernie Sanders by getting involved. But they’re all Sanders now...even if at a slower pace.
There is no way anyone like Ed Koch could get anywhere today as a Democrat.