As a successful entrepreneur who regularly toyed with politics, Herman Cain was, in some respects, a precursor to Trump
Herman Cain on the campaign trail. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images Entrepreneur, talk-radio star, and onetime presidential campaign meteor Herman Cain has died of COVID-19, which he may or may not have contracted at Donald Trump’s disastrous Tulsa rally last month. A 74-year-old cancer survivor, Cain would have been well-advised to stay far away from Tulsa, where he was seen without a mask. Then again, he had voiced opposition to mask mandates, so he was practicing what he preached.
In some respects, Herman Cain was a precursor to Trump. He was a successful entrepreneur who regularly toyed with politics. But unlike Trump, he began with nothing but a computer science degree, rose the corporate ladder at Coca-Cola and Pillsbury, and was eventually placed by Pillsbury at the helm of its struggling pizza subsidiary, Godfather’s.
By the time Cain decided to run for president in the 2012 cycle, he had an established persona as a businessman-outsider conservative populist. As the rare Black conservative celebrity, he easily attracted attention on the campaign trail, and in a field of elected officials, became a tea-party favorite. His signature “9-9-9” tax proposal was nonsense, but nicely designed for the tax-cut-mad GOP rank and file.
In a novel attempt at lowering expectations, Republican candidate Herman Cain told an interviewer recently that he plans to simply answer “I don’t know” if he is asked “gotcha” questions by reporters covering his campaign for president. “I’m ready for the ‘gotcha’ questions and they’re already starting to come,” Cain said. “And when they ask me who is the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan, I’m going to say you know, I don’t know.
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