Black Republican presidential candidate and Trump supporter who made millions in the pizza business dies after contracting coronavirus
30 July 2020 - 18:23Late former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks at a gathering in Washington, DC, the US. He died in an Atlanta hospital on July 30 2020. Picture: MANDEL NGAN / AFP
He didn’t know when or how he contracted the disease, the statement said. Covid-19 cases were rising in the area at the time, prompting local officials to ask Trump to cancel the event. “There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened,” Cain wrote in “This is Herman Cain! My Journey to the White House.”
While his 2012 White House run captured national headlines, Cain also briefly ran for the 2000 Republican nomination, and for a US Senate seat in Georgia in 2004. “If 10% is good enough for God, 9% ought to be good enough for the federal government,” Cain said, referring to the tithe sometimes paid as a contribution to a religious organisation.
Former US housing secretary Jack Kemp became a fan of Cain when the two met in 1994. Kemp would say later that Cain has the “voice of Othello, the looks of a football player, the English of Oxfordian quality, and the courage of a lion”.
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