I suppose that, if she didn't speak a certain way, she might not have been elected to begin with. No one can know for sure. It's an alternate history. Anyway, sometimes we learn a certain way of speaking to achieve a certain goal, and yet, when we reach that next level, instead of having some sense of "earned" security, the situation is ever more fragile and fraught. She's got a heavy dose of that right now. She worked hard to get herself into a room in which she isn't allowed to exist.