as a new yorker, I can see why a businessman would register as a Democrat or independent. My father had to switch parties and attend a fundraiser when he was in the post office to get a promotion. When my son was at the motor vehicle office and registered, the person behind the counter looked at his ‘Republican’ application and said something like, ‘we never see THAT here’.
Maybe for a businessman that's true...but I don't want your father as nominee either. We're way beyond the business man thing here.
Trump claims to stand on principle. I see a conservative position on immigration, crony capitalism like we’ve never seen from a Presidential candidate, and a list of claims to conservatism that are, at best, spurious.