Anthony Fabrizio (born 1960) is an American

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and

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. The principal in Fabrizio, Lee & Associates, Fabrizio was the pollster for

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's fall

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, former Senator

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's 1996 presidential campaign, U.S. Senator

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's U.S. Senate and

, and former Governor

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's 2012 presidential campaign, among others. He also served as a pollster for the

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in the 2014 midterm elections. Fabrizio is a silent owner of Multi Media Services Corporation (MMSC). MMSC was the biggest vendor to the top pro-Trump

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super PAC. In February 2018, he was questioned by Robert Mueller's Special Counsel team about polling data shared with pro-Kremlin pro-Putin individuals.

Career

In 1996, Fabrizio served as chief pollster and strategist to

's Presidential campaign, which was unsuccessful. He has also worked for several dozen U.S. Senators and Governors, including

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, among others. During 2012 and 2013, he received $250,000 for his efforts to assist

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's pro-

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, pro-

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, pro-

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efforts in Ukraine. He was also pollster for the Republican Governor Association's campaign to reelect Governor Scott Walker in 2014. He also served as the pollster for the

's independent campaign effort that helped elect six new Republican Senators and re-elect three Republican incumbents in 2014. In 2015, he served as pollster for successful gubernatorial candidate

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in Kentucky, and that year also aided Rand Paul's Presidential campaign. Following Paul's exit from the race, Fabrizio was hired by the campaign of

as Chief Pollster, joining fellow pollsters

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and John McLaughlin (Fabrizio's former business partner). Fabrizio's hiring as Trump's pollster came as a surprise to political analysts, pointing to Trump's past opposition to pollsters, with Trump stating in an interview with

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on ''

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'', "I don't have pollsters. I don't want to waste money on pollsters. I don't want to be unreal. I want to be me. I have to be me." He and Conway were among those representing the Trump campaign at Harvard University's post-election roundtable. Fabrizio is also longtime friends with former Trump advisers Paul Manafort and

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. In October 2016, it was reported in multiple media outlets that Trump was refusing to pay for Fabrizio's polling services, with the

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report showing that Trump's campaign was disputing nearly $767,000 that Fabrizio's firm said it was still owed for polling. Fabrizio has additionally worked with clients including

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, and

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, among others.

Mueller's Special Counsel investigations

In February 2018, Fabrizio was questioned by Robert Mueller's team to determine if voter information and polling data was shared with the Kremlin during the

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. On January 8, 2019, Paul Manafort's attorneys failed to redact and inadvertently revealed that

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's prosecutors knew that 2016 voter information and polling data had been shared with pro-Kremlin Ukrainians through

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to Serhiy Lyovochkin and

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Personal life

Fabrizio is a

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native, and grew up on

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