BREAKING: Businessman, Onetime GOP Candidate Herman Cain Has Died of COVID-19 at 74

Presidential candidate and businessman, Herman Cain has died after a monthlong battle with COVID-19. He was 74. 

Cain was set to launch a weekly show, died in an Atlanta-area hospital, according to Newsmax. 

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He was admitted on July 1, two days after being diagnosed with COVID-19.

"Mr. Cain did not require a respirator, and he is awake and alert," a statement read at the time he was hospitalized. "There is no way of knowing for sure how or where Mr. Cain contracted the coronavirus, but we do know he is a fighter who has beaten Stage 4 cancer."

Ten days before checking into the hospital, Cain had attended a rally for President Donald Trump in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Chair of Black Voices for Trump, had been on a whirlwind travel schedule in June, so it is not known where he may have contracted the virus.