Gillespie is running an eerily similar campaign to that of Cruz. Unlike the original GOP post-mortem urban pandering strategy, Gillespie seems to have been spooked enough by Stewart to have shifted to embrace more of a Ted-Cruz type of strategy. The attempt is to keep Stewart voters in-line. Donor-friendly, but with sprinkles of red meat.
Compare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-SC1uUiT9s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0UiqMDbpAw
Ted Cruz wouldn't need to do that much to unite the establishment, if he simply put Jeb or Romney as VP, that would have secured the necessary establishment support for his campaign.
Interesting thought never ever noticed how there somewhat the same but I think
Ed's ad is more like
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PmwhdDv8VrMThen ted Cruz's,the fact is these kinds of ads work always.