Last week, Georgia businessman Herman Cain was memorialized after his death at age 74 due to the coronavirus. Days later, his Twitter account, which still bears his name and image, has delivered a series of pointed tweets railing against the Biden-Harris campaign.
Cain, who ran for president in 2012 on the Republican ticket, was heavily involved with politics throughout his career. One of his last public appearances was at a June rally for President Donald Trump in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Shortly after that appearance, Cain was hospitalized due to the coronavirus. He died July 30 from the virus.
The folks responsible for the late entrepreneur’s “Cain Gang” Twitter account are using his platform, targeting his more than 555,000 followers, to promote messaging about the upcoming presidential election. Several folks have responded with surprise and snark at one particular tweet about presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate California Sen. Kamala Harris.
In addition to the tweet about the presidential race, Cain’s account, which is reportedly run by his daughter and family, took a jab at Paul Howard, who lost his seat as Fulton County district attorney earlier this week.
In a post on the Herman Cain website, his daughter Melanie Cain Gallo explained why it’s important to her to continue pushing for Cain’s values and ideals using his online presence despite his death.
“As much as we enjoy bringing you information about the news of the day, these are the things that really drove my dad, and he would have wanted this platform to continue giving people reasons to feel that hope as we continue to tell you what you need to know about what’s going on in the country,” she said in a post Tuesday.
Despite fulfilling Cain’s wishes, several on Twitter found it eerie and unusual that Cain’s account would be used to opine on politics, especially so soon after his death.
Others criticized the account for supporting the Trump campaign because many speculate that Cain became ill with COVID-19 due to attending the June rally for the president with thousands not wearing masks.
Some have said those on “the left” have made light of Cain’s death. Criticizing the Cain Twitter account has become an extension of that, supporters have argued.
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