{"id":17064,"date":"2020-07-30T11:20:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T15:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=17064"},"modified":"2023-09-24T15:47:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T19:47:53","slug":"former-presidential-candidate-herman-cain-dead-at-74-from-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=17064","title":{"rendered":"Former presidential candidate Herman Cain dead at 74 from coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former presidential candidate and Georgia resident Herman Cain, who was  hospitalized earlier this month with COVID-19, has died from the virus. He was 74 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cain&#8217;s death was confirmed by his spokesman <a href=\"https:\/\/hermancain.com\/heartbroken-world-poorer-herman-cain-gone-lord\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=thenewvoice&amp;utm_content=2020-07-30\">Dan Calabrese<\/a> Thursday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Herman Cain \u2013 our boss, our friend, like a father to so many of us \u2013 has passed away. He\u2019s entering the presence of the Savior he\u2019s served as an associate minister at Antioch Baptist Church in <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Atlanta\"   title=\"Atlanta\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Atlanta<\/a> for, and preparing for his reward,&#8221; Calabrese said in a post on Cain&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cain attended President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign rally in Tulsa where several of Trump\u2019s campaign staff later tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Calabrese, there were positive indicators from doctors about Cain&#8217;s condition five days ago, which staffers shared on social media. However, he said Cain&#8217;s loved ones were concerned because &#8220;he never quite seemed to get to the point where the doctors could advance him to the recovery phase.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo: NEW ORLEANS, LA \u2013 JUNE 17: Presidential candidate Herman Cain addresses the Republican Leadership Conference on June 17, 2011 at the Hilton Riverside New Orleans in New Orleans, LA.<\/em><em>@oranhall \/ depositphotos.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former presidential candidate and Georgia resident Herman Cain, who was hospitalized earlier this month with COVID-19, has died from the virus. He was 74 years old. Cain&#8217;s death was confirmed by his spokesman Dan Calabrese Thursday morning. &#8220;Herman Cain \u2013 our boss, our friend, like a father to so many of us \u2013 has passed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7286,94],"tags":[8481,8480,8473,8474],"class_list":["post-17064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-georgia-people","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-media","tag-sun","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}