Backstage before the debate started, he turned to his top aide. The candidate appeared often in non-primary states, and employed only a handful of people in Iowa; three months before voting began, he spent much of October away from the campaign trail to promote his book This Is Herman Cain! Cain did plenty to distract from his own success: He made hateful and inflammatory comments about Muslims on the trail. At the end of November , Ginger White, an Atlanta woman, came forward with allegations that she and Cain had had a year-long affair.
Cain denied this, but his campaign quickly collapsed. In the years after his presidential bid, Cain's public presence seemed to shrink to the fringes of the party. But in his early seventies, he became one of President Trump's most reliable supporters and remained a familiar face on the Fox News circuit as he traveled the country for speaking engagements.
For the most part, you found him in daily videos on The Herman Cain Show , or writing in the pages of his own lo-fi website, HermanCain. On the evening of Wednesday, July 1, the day Cain was admitted to the hospital, one such tweet appeared on his account. At p. Calabrese declined to name the person responsible for the tweet, saying they had since moved on to another job.
He absolutely recognized the necessity of it — and I know he was careful. Cain had already been traveling in the lead-up to the rally — there was a trip to Las Vegas and a stop in Dallas before the Tulsa rally for the premiere of Uncle Tom , a documentary about Black conservatives.
Current and former staffers who were watching the public reaction sensed in it something they had observed for years — a familiar reflex, they said, to caricaturize Cain. But it still bothers some of them that even during his rise to the top of the polls in the Republican primary, Cain was covered as half frontrunner, half joke. He liked to be kind of goofy and loud. And he wasn't gonna stop doing that because some political image consultant somewhere thought that he would get disrespected by Politico.
Who cares about Politico? If you were a Black man who questioned or strayed from the Democratic orthodoxy — not just about race, but about economics, about the role of government — you were a heretic. He came from a tradition of Black conservatism animated by issues of economics, business, and, for Cain in particular, independence.
Black Republican politicians operate in a complicated public space , caught between ideals and a party that can be less than welcoming, and sometimes outright hostile , to Black voters and their concerns. Still, Cain's pro-business posture and willingness to rebuke the establishment line made his support for Trump unsurprising. I know what a racist looks like when I see one. Donald Trump is not a racist.
The Tulsa rally was important to the president. The scheduling decision was met poorly. The Trump campaign moved the rally to the following night and worked to ensure its Black surrogates would be in attendance. Scores of supporters flew in. His death was announced on Twitter on July The announcement came 11 days after Cain's appearance at Trump's Tulsa rally, where he was pictured amid a group of other rally attendees without masks.
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Neither Cain nor the others in the photo were wearing masks or abiding by federal recommendations for maintaining a safe social distance. Critics were quick to point out the potential connection between Cain's attendance at the Trump campaign's large, in-person gathering and his critical illness shortly thereafter. We'll never know. Trump, who has defended his rally and subsequent campaign events, denied after Cain's death that the former pizza executive had contracted the virus in Tulsa.
Even after his hospitalization, Cain's social media presence continued to dish out takes on the pandemic. So, is it any wonder that people are skeptical? Cain's social media accounts occasionally provided vague updates on his condition throughout July.
The most recent update came on July 27, when Cain's social media revealed that he was "being treated with oxygen for his lungs" nearly a month after entering the hospital. Calabrese had overseen and edited Cain's website for years, and before then had syndicated Cain's newspaper columns.
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