These days, independent typically means you are afraid to admit that you are planning to vote for on of the commie candidates instead of Trump.
There is nothing to fear in a roomful of strangers whose opinions don't matter.
YOU choose to interpret being independent as you do, based on your obvious adulation of Trump.
I interpret being independent as not being blindly loyal in the face of utter stupidity, by committing to one party or PERSON as if it is some kind of cult, led by a demagogue who is believed by the ignorant to be infallible.