Former GOP Presidential Candidate, Trump Fed Pick Herman Cain Dies After Battle With Coronavirus

Herman Cain, the former Godfather's Pizza CEO and one-time Republican presidential candidate who campaigned on a sweeping tax reform plan called the 9-9-9 plan, died Thursday morning after a monthlong battle with COVID-19. He was 74.

Cain beat Stage 4 colon cancer back in 2006, and has been described by friends and family as a fighter. He was admitted to the hospital due to his COVID-19 infection on July 1. He was diagnosed with the virus two days prior, roughly a week after attending Trump's Tulsa, Oklahoma rally.

However, it's impossible to say for certain where Cain was infected (though several of Trump's campaign staff from the event did contract the virus). Initially after being admitted to the hospital, Cain's spokesman said he didn't need a ventilator, and was in "good spirits".

Cain grew up in Georgia, where he lived at the time of his death. He was the head of "Black Voices for Trump" and had recently signed on to host a new show on Newsmax called "Herman Cain's America".

Cain's name returned to the front page last year when President Trump was considering him for an open seat on the Fed board of governors. However, Cain's path to the nomination was sabotaged by complains about the sexual indiscretions that helped undermine his 2012 GOP primary campaign (for the nomination eventually won by now Sen. Mitt Romney). However, he once served as director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas.

Dan Calabrese, a longtime writer, and editor of Cain's website, published a touching obituary written by a longtime friend and staffer. Read it below in full:

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You’re never ready for the kind of news we are grappling with this morning. But we have no choice but to seek and find God’s strength and comfort to deal with it.

Herman Cain – our boss, our friend, like a father to so many of us – has passed away. He’s entering the presence of the Savior he’s served as an associate minister at Antioch Baptist Church in Atlanta for, and preparing for his reward.

Romans 2:6-7 says: “God ‘will repay each person according to what they have done.’ To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.” By that measure, we expect the boss is in for some kind of welcome, because all of us who knew him are well aware of how much good he did.

https://www.zerohedge.com/mark...in-succumbs-covid-19

RIP we Lost a Good Man...

Oh, no. A great man is lost.

A great man and a great American.

So sad to hear this. A good man has passed. He will be remembered.

He was a good man.

Yes, he was one of the good ones. Very sad to hear.

RIP A great business man and great American has been called away.

That’s very sad news. I loved his unique perspective and enjoyed his radio show. In fact, he’s the only talk show host I’ve ever felt led to call and speak with on the air. We had a good discussion about an issue of the day. Rest In Peace, Mr. Cain.

sad news

RIP Mr. Cain

RIP, Mr. Cain. A real sad day in America.

America lost a good man today
I always enjoyed listening to him speak even though sometimes I did not agree with him

I felt he was very articulate and very informed on what he spoke of.

Also I used to love Godfathers pizza.
I think it is very under rated.

He came from what I would call blue collar stock, and when he spoke of his upbringing he always said: "His family was poor but happy"

He had a heck of a background:

He graduated from Morehouse College with a BS in Mathematics and then he earned an MS in Computer Science from Purdue University while working full-time as a ballistics analyst as a civilian for the Dept of the Navy.

How can anyone major in mathematics?
(I struggled with Pre-algebra)

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Originally posted by RichardC:

Wrong conservative black guy...

RIP Mr. Cain, we lost a good man today.

Truly sad day and a great loss to America.

Sad to hear this- condolences to the Cain family.
He was a very impressive gentleman.

Beat Stage 4 cancer, to get felled by the virus. That's a big like surviving Fallujah to get run over by a car. Good reason to look both ways.

Seems to be a year of losing good people.

Sad to hear of Mr. Cain's passing. I read his book back in 2012, and was hoping he'd go much farther in that campaign.

RIP, Mr. Cain.

He was my candidate in 2012. RIP, Mr. Cain.

We lost a good man. Rest in peace, sir.

Damn that sucks. He was always a voice of reason.