Sounds like she’s trying to own protectionism as her issue:

Signaling the collapse of support for free trade in the Democratic Party, Senator Clinton’s presidential campaign has signed up as an economic adviser a former House leader who staunchly opposed major trade deals, Richard Gephardt of Missouri.
Mrs. Clinton’s decision to make Mr. Gephardt an official member of her economic team is a blunt repudiation of her husband’s strategy from 1992, when he won the White House in part by distancing himself from unions and protectionist elements in the Democratic base.
“I think there’s a large coming together within the Democratic Party in the last few years on the trade issue,” Mr. Gephardt told reporters yesterday as he announced his endorsement of Mrs. Clinton and his new role with her campaign. “Senator Clinton has been at the center of that coming together. We’ve now defined a position that is for trade, that is for free trade treaties, but also requiring that there be a proper observance and a concern about labor and environmental rights in those treaties. We’re in a time where there’s much more agreement in the party.”
While Mr. Gephardt put Mrs. Clinton at “the center” of the Democrats’ new approach, the prevailing orthodoxy in the party now is nearly identical to what he was advocating in the 1990s when he led opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which President Clinton championed