Washington, Dec 24 (ANI): After years as a registered Republican, billionaire US businessman Donald Trump has changed the party affiliation on his New York State voter registration to "unaffiliated," leaving the door open for a 2012 Presidential race.
Michael Cohen, a Special Counsel to Trump, said the real estate mogul did so in order to preserve his right to run as an Independent.
"Trump has done that in order to preserve his right to run as an independent after the finale of his television show "The Apprentice" at the end of May," Fox News quoted Cohen, as saying.
"Something's he's stated over the past six months he might elect to do if, in fact, he's not satisfied with who the Republican candidate is and does not believe that that candidate can defeat Obama in 2012," Cohen added.
Most recently Trump was in the headlines for pulling out of his role as a moderator of a GOP presidential debate in Iowa, which only Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum had committed themselves to.
According to Politico, which first reported Trump's party switch, he will still be able to vote in the New York presidential primary in April.
Trump had once been a registered Democrat. (ANI)
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