FILE PHOTO: U.S. Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks at a town hall event at The Magnolia Room at Laurel Creek in Rock Hill, South Carolina, U.S., December 2, 2011. REUTERS/John Adkisson/File Photo
(Reuters) - Herman Cain, a former Republican presidential candidate and supporter of President Donald Trump who pointedly refused to wear a mask during the coronavirus pandemic, has died after contracting COVID-19, his website said on Thursday.
Cain, 74, learned of his diagnosis on June 29, nine days after attending a Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he and many others crowded together without wearing face masks aimed at preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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