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Legendary businessman and former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has reportedly passed at the age of 74 amid what has been a month-long battle with the coronavirus.
“Cain, who recently joined Newsmax TV and was set to launch a weekly show, died in an Atlanta-area hospital where he had been critically ill for several weeks. He was admitted on July 1, two days after being diagnosed with COVID-19,” Newsmax confirmed Thursday morning.
His death comes three days after his team posted a tweet announcing that he was “still in the hospital being treated with oxygen for his lungs” and that otherwise “doctors say his organs and systems are strong.”
We know it’s been a few days since we last gave you an update on the boss. But he is still in the hospital being treated with oxygen for his lungs. In the meantime, the doctors say his other organs and systems are strong.
— Herman Cain (@THEHermanCain) July 27, 2020
Re-strengthening the lungs is a long and slow process, and the doctors want to be thorough about it.
— Herman Cain (@THEHermanCain) July 27, 2020
We’d like him to be able to come home now, which is frustrating, but we’re glad the doctors are being thorough and making sure they do the job right. Thank you for praying, everyone. Please keep doing it. He really is getting better, which means it is working.
— Herman Cain (@THEHermanCain) July 27, 2020
It’s still unclear where Cain, a former Godfather’s Pizza CEO who reportedly survived stage 4 colon cancer, caught the virus from.
“Ten days before, Cain had attended a rally for President Donald Trump in Tulsa, Oklahoma. But it is not known for sure where Cain, chair of Black Voices for Trump, was infected. He had been on a whirlwind travel schedule in June, stopping in multiple cities,” Newsmax noted.
Within literal seconds of the news of his death emerging, so did the unquenchable hatred from the left-wing side of the political aisle.
Recall all the love that was offered to far-left CNN host Chris Cuomo from conservatives of all stripes, including Cain, after he announced his coronavirus diagnosis in March.
We’re all in this together, so drop the politics. Be better than that. We may not often agree with Cuomo or his network, but we wish him a speedy recovery and hope the spread within CNN is contained. #Coronavirus https://t.co/WsATLJYWfu
— Herman Cain (@THEHermanCain) March 31, 2020
Unfortunately, though not surprisingly given the radicalization of the modern left, liberal Democrats had very little love to share with Cain.
Instead, they rushed to politicize the matter, with one Democrat candidate claiming without evidence that Cain’s “dead because of that stupid Oklahoma rally.”
It’s always #OrangeManBad, of course …
Look:
Herman Cain is dead. He’s dead because of that stupid Oklahoma rally. Could everybody wake up?
— Nate McMurray for Congress 2020 (@Nate_McMurray) July 30, 2020
Donald trumps ego killed Herman Cain on the day of his Tulsa rally.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) July 30, 2020
The @GOP politicized basic health and safety to appease Donald Trump, killing their own people in the process. For every Herman Cain, how many hundreds of others go ignored? https://t.co/gzcnZPhbT4
— Adam Nathaniel Peck (@adamnpeck) July 30, 2020
Herman Cain has died of Covid-19. He tested positive after attending a Trump’s Tulsa rally without wearing a mask.
I wonder how many ordinary people whose names are not in the headlines got sick after that Trump rally. https://t.co/cGsb29Kyyu
— Aisha Sultan (@AishaS) July 30, 2020
Dear @realDonaldTrump
If this man had not attended your Tulsa rally, he would be alive today.
Think about that real hard.
And then realize Herman Cain is only one of the 150,000 dead because of your failure to have protected this nation from #CoronavirusPandemic. https://t.co/047KX2v8LW
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) July 30, 2020
Tea Pain is sad to hear about the passin' of Herman Cain, but this is a blood-curdlin' symbol even MAGA can understand and the message is clear.
Follow Trump and you will die.
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) July 30, 2020
Herman Caín thought Covid was a hoax, scoffed at wearing a mask. Died of Covid.
Bill Montgomery, co-founder of pro-Trump, Turning Point USA, scoffed at virus. Died of Covid.
Rep. Gohmert refused to wear a mask. Has Covid.
See a pattern?
Covid doesn’t care about partisanship.— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) July 30, 2020
Other liberal Democrats kept it even less classy, believe it or not.
Look (*Language warning):
He refused to wear a mask. Y’all have been dying to own the libs for years but Herman Cain literally did it. A Republican with principles!!!! They don’t make them like they used to. https://t.co/70XFED5PTZ
— Phillip Henry (@MajorPhilebrity) July 30, 2020
On the flip side, that’s one less vote for Trump!
— Geoff Mills (@GeneralMills88) July 30, 2020
Herman Cain has gone to meet his Karma.
— Henry Nachtman (@HankKnight) July 30, 2020
Herman Cain died and not a soul letting this man rest in peace 😂😂😂 fucking coon
— Melvin (@_melvinsanchez) July 30, 2020
How is it that these republicans are dying from a documented hoax?
Bye Herman Cain!
— Jeff Russell. 🇺🇸🏳️🌈 (@JeffRus31916331) July 30, 2020
Herman Cain is dead. Bye, fucker.
— BoJack Humanman (@QuincyHughes) July 30, 2020
Herman Cain DIED FROM HIS OWN STUPIDITY.
RIP UNCLE TOM. pic.twitter.com/eHfOIQ9DaX
— Taqiyya Mockingbird (@TaqiyyaMocking3) July 30, 2020
The left’s finest, ladies and gentlemen …
For actual tributes to Cain, you can look to his website, where editor-in-chief Dan Calabrese has penned a poignant piece.
“I want you to understand just what our world has lost today. There aren’t many people like Herman Cain, and it behooves us to truly cherish the ones we’re given. His wife Gloria – his children Melanie and Vincent – and his grandchildren . . . they need our love, our support and our prayers. Nothing I talked about above meant as much to him as these wonderful people did, and because he loved them so much, we will continue to feel his impact on the world through them,” the piece reads.
You can also look to the moving words of his former aide, Ellen Carmichael.
Look:
I’m very saddened to learn of the passing of my former boss, Herman Cain. I’m bracing for the cruelty online about how he deserved to get COVID and die because of his politics. We’re living in a dark time. But, they didn’t know him. I did.
— Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) July 30, 2020
At the age of 23, I served as the communications director for Herman Cain’s presidential campaign. It was a chaotic experience, which explains how someone fresh out of college could find herself explaining away gaffe after gaffe from an unpolished candidate.
— Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) July 30, 2020
His American Dream story is one for the history books. Overcame absolute destitution, genuine discrimination, stage IV cancer and so much hardship in between. Rose up the ranks of America’s biggest corporations, advised presidential campaigns, chaired a Federal Reserve bank…
— Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) July 30, 2020
This is a man who grew up in a house that had three rooms in it. His mother was a domestic worker (he would never say “maid”), and his dad worked three jobs to survive. He and his brother would argue over who would get to sleep on the cot and who had to sleep on the floor.
— Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) July 30, 2020
After successfully completing college as a “Morehouse Man,” a distinction he proudly carried with him his whole life, he became a rocket scientist for the Dept. of the Navy. Quite literally a rocket scientist. I guess that degree in math and physics helped.
— Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) July 30, 2020
Rose up the ranks of Coca-Cola, Pillsbury and Pepsi. Turned Godfather’s Pizza around from bankruptcy to solvency in 14 months. FOURTEEN MONTHS. This man knew business and he knew people. His signature approach was to go to the people closest to the problem to solve it. It worked.
— Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) July 30, 2020
He singularly took down HillaryCare when he had the tenacity to school President Clinton on basic economics in a townhall. Clinton, smug as ever, smirked as he thought Cain would side with him. He was wrong. Herman humiliated him. https://t.co/gF2NLaL5pU
— Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) July 30, 2020
He won the attention and admiration of Jack Kemp, who flew to Omaha to sit in an airport and talk to Cain for hours. They became lifelong friends, and Kemp had him serve as an economic adviser for Dole/Kemp in 1996. Herman was devastated when Kemp died of cancer.
— Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) July 30, 2020
Kemp’s death inspired Herman to fight his own battle against stage IV liver and colon cancer. Miraculously, he beat cancer. I remember him telling me how much he loved and missed Jack Kemp, and how he had wanted to beat cancer because Kemp couldn’t.
— Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) July 30, 2020
I won’t go much into his presidential campaign because a lot has been said about it already. I will just share one story in particular. Herman had gotten into a lot of trouble for (wrong) remarks he made about wanting to stop the construction of a mosque in Tennessee.
— Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) July 30, 2020
He understandably got a lot of blowback on this. But, members of a northern Virginia mosque opened their doors to him. They educated him. They broke bread with him. They had him speak to summer campers. He called me from the airport, voice cracking from holding back tears…
— Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) July 30, 2020
…he told me how wrong he had been, how wonderful of a time he had and how they invited him to speak at a future Friday service. His life was clearly changed by the experience. I hung up the phone and cried myself.
— Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) July 30, 2020
Just as I am crying now. Working for Herman had a lot of challenges – working for any campaign does. But, he was a really good person. He really, really was. And despite the challenges he faced in his life, he deeply loved his country with his whole heart. Please believe that.
— Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) July 30, 2020
R.I.P., Mr. Cain.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.
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