Herman Cain, the former Republican presidential candidate and business executive who was hospitalized this month with the coronavirus, has died. He was 74.…Normally I'd link to the Wikipedia page for someone who's just died, but when I checked it today it had been vandalized with disgusting photos. I'm sure that problem will be fixed, but please use caution when visiting Herman Cain's Wikipedia page.
Mr. Cain, the former chief executive of Godfather’s Pizza, ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2012, and his irreverent style and rags-to-riches story made him an unlikely hero of Tea Party conservatives. He dropped out of the race after he was accused of sexual misconduct, which he denied.…
His platform was likely best known for his 9-9-9 tax plan: a flat 9 percent individual income tax rate, a 9 percent corporate tax rate and a 9 percent national sales tax.
Axios notes:
Cain, the co-chair of Black Voices for Trump, was in a high-risk group due to his history with cancer. Cain's positive coronavirus test came less than two weeks after he attended President Trump's controversial June 20 campaign rally in Tulsa, where he tweeted a picture of himself without a mask.… It's unclear whether Cain contracted the virus at the Trump rally.From 2011: Herman Cain on America's racial progress.
(Photo by Eric Thayer/Getty.)
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I declined a comment which linked to a Newsmax article about how Cain had recently done other traveling in addition to the Trump rally. That's also noted in the New York Times obituary, and my quote from Axios mentions that it's unknown whether Cain caught the virus at the rally. I generally avoid links to Newsmax, which has incorrectly and dangerously called vaccines "a scam" and urged readers not to get a Covid-19 vaccine if it becomes available (source: Wikipedia).
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