Herman Cain — our boss, our friend, like a father to so many of us — has passed away.”, Trump told reporters that day that Cain “was a very special person.”. You know, no fear. Cain’s campaign had no business doing as well as it did. And though he attended the Trump rally that became a symbol of the president’s carelessness toward the crisis, his family and others close to him don’t believe it’s certain that he contracted the virus in Tulsa. By the next afternoon, Cain was in the hospital. A since-deleted Aug. 7 tweet, linking to a Western Journal article, argued that the virus was “not as deadly as the mainstream media first made it out to be.” A few weeks later, the tweet resurfaced, prompting another wave of headlines. At the end of November 2011, Ginger White, an Atlanta woman, came forward with allegations that she and Cain had had a 13-year-long affair. Who cares about Politico? He encouraged wearing masks and keeping a distance of 6 feet around strangers, as he said he did.
This has been further complicated by Trump — a president who, without irony, says he's done more for Black Americans than any president since Abraham Lincoln while disparaging Black officials and overseeing a pandemic that’s disproportionately affected Black Americans. And he wasn't gonna stop doing that because some political image consultant somewhere thought that he would get disrespected by Politico. “PEOPLE ARE FED UP!”. “We're still trying to make heads and tails of what happened to our family.” ●. Cain was new to this, a first-time candidate in Georgia who had made the jump from the restaurant world to a three-way Republican primary for the Senate in 2004, but he had confidence and a natural way with people. But in his early seventies, he became one of President Trump's most reliable supporters and remained a familiar face on the Fox News circuit as he traveled the country for speaking engagements. There’s no such thing.” Cain promptly registered with the GOP. Ruby Cramer is a politics reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York. “But he’s a terrible leader.” He was warm and funny in person, too. Melanie Cain Gallo believes he could have been more careful — after the Tulsa rally, she said, she questioned him herself about why he wasn’t wearing a mask in the photo he tweeted. Bryant, conservative activist Deneen Borelli, and Republican National Committee adviser Paris Dennard. I know what a racist looks like when I see one He told his daughter that he felt comfortable enough to do so because of the event’s temperature checks, a measure that was popular early in the pandemic that scientists increasingly say offers little protection. He made horrifyingly bigoted remarks about Muslims and immigrants on the trail.
When the turnaround was slower than than the parent company wanted, Cain cobbled together an ownership group to buy Godfather’s. With Cain was Corrin Rankin, a conservative activist based in California.
Cain had already been traveling in the lead-up to the rally — there was a trip to Las Vegas and a stop in Dallas before the Tulsa rally for the premiere of Uncle Tom, a documentary about Black conservatives. Cain on stage on stage during the Republican presidential debate in Greenville, South Carolina, on May 4, 2011.
“I thought he was just drained from the travel,” Melanie said. “Running statewide in Georgia just seemed to me a very different animal than running for president,” she said. “He wasn't like this character you see on TV. Cain’s background outside of politics was an asset in some ways, appealing to conservative voters who distrusted career politicians. Those things sounded, relatively speaking for COVID, normal.”, Cain stayed in the hospital for 29 days.