U.S Politician and businessman, Herman Cain is dead. The news of his death was announced on Thursday 30th July 2020, and it was from coronavirus complications.
Herman Cain who was a one-time Republican presidential candidate and former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, was only aged, 74.
According to reports, the death of Herman Cain was first reported on his official Twitter account.
He was hospitalized earlier this month, and his Twitter account said this week he was being treated with oxygen in his lungs. It is unknown where Cain contracted the virus.
“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,” his official Twitter account said.
According to the report by CNN, as a co-chair of Black Voices for Trump, Herman Cain was one of the surrogates at President Donald Trump’s June 20 rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which saw at least eight Trump advance team staffers in attendance test positive for coronavirus. Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh has told CNN that Cain did not meet with Trump at the Tulsa rally.
Cain announced his candidacy for president in 2011. He briefly gained traction in the race for his 9-9-9 tax reform plan, which would have replaced almost all current taxes with a 9% income tax, a 9% corporate tax and a 9% national sales tax. After about seven months, he dropped his bid for the GOP nomination amid sexual harassment allegations, which he denied.
Cain was considered at an increased risk for coronavirus due to his age and history with cancer, according to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance.
In 2006, Cain was given a 30% chance of survival from stage 4 colon cancer that had spread to his liver. He underwent chemotherapy and surgery to remove cancer from his liver and was declared cancer-free in 2007.
Cain was born December 13, 1945, in Memphis, Tennessee. He is survived by his wife, Gloria, and their two children, Melanie and Vincent, and grandchildren.