Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain has passed away after a weeks-long battle with coronavirus. He was 74.
“Herman Cain – our boss, our friend, like a father to so many of us – has passed away,” Dan Calabrese said in an announcement on Cain’s website. “We all prayed so hard every day. We knew the time would come when the Lord would call him home, but we really liked having him here with us, and we held out hope he’d have a full recovery.”
Cain was hospitalized for COVID-19 earlier this month and subsequently placed on a ventilator as he battled the virus.
On June 20, just weeks before his hospitalization, Cain attended Trump’s Tulsa rally, which came after eight advance team members tested positive for the virus. By June 29, Cain tested positive for the virus and was hospitalized on July 1.
Cain did not wear a mask or follow social distancing protocols at the rally. Just ahead of the event, he tweeted, “Masks will not be mandatory for the event, which will be attended by President Trump. PEOPLE ARE FED UP.”
Not only was Cain in the high-risk group for the virus, but he was also a cancer survivor, beating Stage 4 colon cancer, which spread to his liver in 2006.
