He was 74.

A public viewing is set for Thursday, Aug. 6, from 4-7p.m. at Alfonso Dawson Mortuary, which is located at  3000 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SW in Atlanta, Georgia where Cain resided with his longtime wife, Gloria.

Also an Atlanta radio show host, Cain had reportedly been ill since June 29 from the coronavirus after he attended Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 20 and, like the president and several other Trump campaign supporters at the rally, did not wear a mask.

And while it has not been confirmed that he contracted the virus at the Trump campaign rally in June, pundits say it raises questions about the wisdom of the president in putting campaign affiliates like Cain at risk, Cain obviously attending the Tulsa event without a mask per Trump's possible suggestions, and in spite of being up in age and a cancer survivor.

Several staffers were infected with the virus following the Tulsa rally, but none fatal.

Cain was co-chair of Blacks for Trump, a voter outreach initiative that targets the Black community and the Black vote as the  president continues to struggle relative to his reelection bid in a fight against Democratic nominee Joe Biden, the front runner, and a former vice president.

Only momentarily considered a viable candidate in 2012 in which Mitt Romney won the Republican nomination but lost the general election to then president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president, the long-shot Cain had hoped that his candidacy for president would ultimately make him the first Black GOP president.

But his mediocre campaign was sidelined by claims of sexual harassment of women in and out of the work place, claims he denied that, nonetheless, saw his dismal campaign numbers drop tremendously.

He was a Black Republican and he continued to embrace the conservative wing of the Republican Party, even though, from a traditional standpoint, Black voters in general have supported the liberal-minded Democratic agenda.