CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — Earlier this month, on the sidelines of the quadrennial campaign managers’ conference at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, I spent nearly an hour speaking to two of the architects of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.
Co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita and chief pollster Tony Fabrizio have much in common. Bald and bearded, the two Italian-Americans are veterans of many a Republican campaign. Fabrizo worked on Bob Dole’s 1996 presidential bid, and LaCivita emerged on the national scene in 2004, when he orchestrated the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth attacks on John Kerry.