We only need look to the example of Senator Elizabeth Warren, (Marxist-Massachusetts), who invented the faux history of herself as an American Indian. This is a common behavior pattern with many of the really poorly wrapped liberals that try to make themselves seem to be “mainstream”.
Wendy Davis is plying this “poor little me” angle a little too hard, as she certainly got more than her share of “affirmations”, as clearly, she is at a level far above her competence, the “Peter Principle” (this is a real thing, and has nothing to do with finding the right guy to sleep with, though that probably happened too) as applied to elective office.
And even at that, she is WAY below the league that Herself, Madame Benghazi, the Cold & Joyless, has managed to self-promote to.