Donald Trump Leaves Republican Party, Might Run As Independent

Not only has Donald Trump decided to leave the Newsmax-proposed GOP debate, he has also decided to leave the Republican party all together.

After only Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum agreed to Trumps debate the slighted businessman and Apprentice host announced that he has switched his voter registration form to read “independent.”

With the switch Trump will be known as a registered “blank” in New York political parlance, the equivalent of an independent.

While Board of Elections officials are not commenting on the change at this time a source a source close to the BoE rules says he missed the October 14 cutoff for the upcoming election cycle and that his switch will take effect after the next election period.

The switch does mean however that he can still vote in the GOP primary and will become a voting independent after the November 2012 general election.

The move isn’t something new for Donald Trump who went from being a Democrat to Republican and now onto Independent, the same type of movement witnessed by New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.

In asking if he might consider a run for President as an independent Trump did not confirm those aspirations but he also didn’t deny the possibility. According to Trump special counsel Michael Cohen he made the move “in order to preserve his right to run as an independent if he is (not pleased) with the GOP nominee.”

If Trump runs as an independent it could hurt his former Republican party which would likely lose some conservative votes to the Trump machine.

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