Subject: Trump hires former Scott pollster Tony Fabrizio
From: "Sarge, Matthew" <[email-masked]>
To: Comm_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 18:17:44 -0700

From the guy who brought you "I don't care about polls"

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/florida/2016/05/8599300/trump-hires-former-scott-pollster-tony-fabrizio

Trump hires former Scott pollster Tony Fabrizio

After resisting hiring a pollster for months, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has signed up veteran political strategist Tony Fabrizio, sources tell POLITICO.

Fabrizio, who advises the Florida U.S. Senate campaign of U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, was the top strategist who masterminded Gov. Rick Scott’s improbable Florida win in 2010. Fabrizio also played a top advisory role in Matt Bevin's 2015 win in Kentucky. Scott and Bevin have a common link to Trump: They were both outsider businessmen who bucked the establishment.

Fabrizio has also polled for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and GOP presidential candidates Bob Dole in 1996 and Rick Perry in 2012 and also advised and surveyed for dozens congressmen and senators.

Fabrizio couldn’t be reached and the Trump campaign would not comment for the record. Fabrizio is a longtime friend of top Trump adviser Paul Manafort and top Trump backer Roger Stone, who had a falling out with the campaign early on when Trump refused to hire a pollster.

Aside from his acumen in understanding how to shape public opinion, the cigar-smoking Fabrizio is well-known for being a blunt talker who doesn’t sugar coat his message.

"He's a straight shooter. If he was a physician and you had a disease and you were going to die, his answer would be: 'You know, you're going to die,' " Scott told the Miami Herald in a 2011 profile of Fabrizio.

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