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Less than two years later, Cain was diagnosed with late-stage cancer in his colon that had spread to his liver. He recovered and later credited God with persuading him to run for president after Obama, a Democrat, took office in early Are you sure? Cain projected a self-confident image that at times bordered on arrogance. He referred to himself in the third person, and his motivational speaking company was named T. New Voice Inc. The acronym stood for The Hermanator Experience.
Born in the segregated South, his father worked three jobs as a janitor, barber and chauffeur, while his mother was a servant. While it was a good job, Cain said his ambitions were in the corporate world. McEnany tweet. Cain had been hospitalized in Atlanta on July 1, two days after being told he had tested positive for Covid, according to his social media.
He did not require a respirator and was "awake and alert" when he checked in to the hospital, the statement said. Cain, and for everyone who has contracted the coronavirus — as well as their families," it said.
Cain had been a business executive and board chairman of a branch of Kansas City's Federal Reserve Bank before moving into Republican politics and eventually becoming a presidential candidate and a favorite of the conservative tea party faction. Cain remained a vocal supporter of Trump's after his nomination was withdrawn. A former CEO of the restaurant chain Godfather's Pizza, Cain became a player in Republican politics as an economic advisor to Bob Dole's presidential campaign before briefly launching his own bid in Critics called the plan "dubious" and impractical.
Cain suspended that campaign in December following multiple allegations of sexual harassment, ranging back to his time as chief executive of the National Restaurant Association in the s. Cain stayed in the hospital for 29 days. The family, physically divided by the virus, kept a close hold on what information they released to the public.
She monitored the conversation at home, unable to see her mother or visit her father in the hospital, and still self-isolating from her husband and kids at their house in Atlanta. On Thursday, July 30, Gloria got a phone call. It was too late. Herman Cain — our boss, our friend, like a father to so many of us — has passed away.
This vein of commentary birthed an equal and opposite reaction on the right. The usual tributes — obits in all the major papers, a panel on Fox News — got garbled in the noise. That week, the team at his media company discussed what to do next. For a number of days, as the site published new material, it appeared that Cain was tweeting from the grave. Their eventual Cain Gang rebrand was also clumsy. A since-deleted Aug. It was as if Cain, still somewhere on the campaign trail, had been caught in a bad gaffe.
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Lost in all the meta-commentary was the story of Cain himself. To rewind just a few years to the peak of his fame on the right is to be reminded that he played a key role in priming the Republican base for a Trump-like leader. Along with Sarah Palin and Ron Paul, Cain, in both his compelling successes and his failings, helped create the stage for conservatism in — a populist and media-centered politics, slogan-friendly and written off as a joke by the people who were supposed to be in charge.
Early on in the pandemic, according to Melanie, he convened a meeting with his staff to set down protocols for handwashing, social distancing, and wearing masks. He also got in the habit of opening episodes of his daily video show by reminding viewers to take the virus seriously and follow guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
He encouraged wearing masks and keeping a distance of 6 feet around strangers, as he said he did. He was a good guy. Every time, Cain and the other kids would scramble into the wagon, climbing atop the pile of potatoes. And every time, their grandfather would avoid the smooth center of the road, driving instead on the rough dirt, where ruts and bumps would jostle the kids and send the potatoes bouncing beneath them.
One day, Cain would tell the crowd, he finally asked why his grandpa always drove on the rough part of the road. 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 , but he had confidence and a natural way with people. Matt Wylie, the campaign manager for the race, said Cain learned quickly as a first-time candidate and particularly loved retail politics; he was eager to get out and shake hands.
We would have crowds of people wanting to talk to him. He enjoyed playing with people's expectations, aides said.
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