Fabrizio, Lee & Associates

§1About

✎ Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Fabrizio, Lee & Associates describes itself as a survey research and strategic consulting firm that works on campaigns, public policy debates and crisis management.^1,2 According to Roll Call, Republican pollsters Tony Fabrizio and David Lee launched the firm in January 2014 as a successor to Fabrizio McLaughlin & Associates.³ Its about page lists Fabrizio and Lee as partners and says Fabrizio was chief pollster for President Donald Trump's 2016 and 2024 campaigns.^1,4

Kind

Works for one party^1,5

Founded

2014-01³

§2Who it works with

Why this matters: Owners, news partners and the firms behind a poll's interviews shape what gets asked, how, and what gets published.

Published with

Names its polls have been published under, alongside other pollsters or news outlets.

• Fabrizio, Lee & Associates/Impact Research: Impact Research · 21 polls listed
• Fabrizio, Lee & Associates/GBAO: GBAO · 4 polls listed
• Fabrizio Lee & Associates/Impact Research: Impact Research
• Fabrizio, Lee & Associates/McLaughlin & Associates: McLaughlin & Associates

Who paid for its polls

§3Whom it works for

Why this matters: A firm that also works for one party's campaigns can still publish accurate polls, but readers deserve to know.

Works for Republican candidates or groups. Its clients page lists Republican party committees (the RNC, the Republican Governors Association, the NRSC and the NRCC) and Republican officeholders as its political clients and names no Democratic clients, and its about page calls Tony Fabrizio one of the leading GOP pollsters.^1,5

• Republican National Committee. The firm's clients page lists the Republican National Committee.⁵
• Republican Governors Association. The firm's clients page lists the Republican Governors Association.⁵
• National Republican Senatorial Committee. The firm's clients page lists the National Republican Senatorial Committee.⁵
• National Republican Congressional Committee. The firm's clients page lists the National Republican Congressional Committee.⁵
• Donald Trump presidential campaigns (2016–now). The firm's clients page lists Donald Trump's 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, and its Tony Fabrizio page cites the 2016 and 2024 campaigns.^4,5

Of its 26 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 4 by a Republican-aligned sponsor⁶.

Federal campaigns and committees that paid it

From 2023 through 2026, 28 federal committees reported paying Fabrizio, Lee & Associates $25,480,170 for polling, surveys or research^7,8,9,10. By the party each committee reports to the FEC: 0 Democratic, 18 Republican, and 10 none (most PACs and super PACs report none).

§4How its numbers compare with other polls

Why this matters: A firm whose polls run steadily to one side of everyone else's is worth reading alongside others.

Each of its polls since the 2024 election is compared with other pollsters' polls of the same question whose field period ended within 14 days, each other pollster counted once⁶. The figure is the average gap, with a 95% margin. This compares it with other polls, not with the truth: the others can be the ones that are off.

Party margin

D+0.9 (±1.2) across 8 polls of the generic ballot and 2026 races, in 5 contests.

Without a party-aligned sponsor

D+0.5 (±1.1) across 7 polls

D+ means its polls showed Democrats doing better than other polls did; R+, Republicans. A figure from fewer than 5 polls isn't shown.

§5Record against results

Why this matters: The one test that doesn't depend on other polls: how close a firm's final polls came to what voters did.

From FiveThirtyEight's final public data^11,12: general-election polls between a Democrat and a Republican in the last three weeks before each election, compared with the certified result. FiveThirtyEight rated each name polls were published under separately. Across all 8,957 such polls, the average miss was D+0.7, so the relative figure takes out the misses every pollster shared that year.

ABC News closed FiveThirtyEight in March 2025; its data stops at the 2022 elections. 2026 results will be added once states certify them.

§6Its polls

§7What we looked for and didn't find

• No office location was found on the pages read.
• No start or end dates were found for the Wall Street Journal arrangement; our data also show joint bylines with GBAO, but no page read confirms that partnership.
• AARP's 2026 battleground polls credit Fabrizio-Ward, which our directory lists as a separate pollster, so AARP is not recorded here as a client of this firm.
• Its clients page also lists corporations and associations; these are not recorded as standing poll clients.
• No fieldwork or panel vendor was named on the pages read.
• Searches found no AAPOR statement, court ruling or filing, regulator action, aggregator statement about excluding or reweighting its polls, or retraction by the firm.