(Washington) Conservative politician Herman Cain, a former White House candidate who attended a Donald Trump election rally last month without a mask, has died of COVID – 19 at the age of 74, his relatives announced Thursday.
Posted on 30 July 2020 at 12 h 33
France Media Agency
“Herman Cain, our boss, our friend, who was like a father to many of us, has passed away,” said website editor Dan Calabrese.
Known for running as a candidate for the Republican Party's nomination for the presidential election of 2012, Herman Cain was hospitalized in early July after testing positive to the new coronavirus, less than ten days after a meeting with Donald Trump in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he was photographed in the middle of the crowd, without a mask.
In a previous message, the editor of the Hermancain.com site stressed that it was not proven that he was contaminated in Tulsa: “It is impossible to know with certainty how and where Mr. Cain contracted the coronavirus ”.
Co-president of the “Black Voices for Trump” movement and a conservative close to the Tea Party anti-tax movement, Herman Cain was born in December 74 in Tennessee d 'a father driver and a mother cleaning lady.
He had run a chain of pizzerias in the years 1980 (Godfather's Pizza) and was director of the Kansas City regional office of the Central Bank (Fed ) in the early 1990.
In 2012, he had animated the campaign of the Republican primaries by his spontaneity, but his candidacy had been torpedoed by accusations of sexual harassment.
Donald Trump tried last year to get him appointed as Fed governor, but several Republican senators had announced their intention to block his nomination.
Herman Cain was married and the father of two children.
