POST HERE EVERY TIME A SKEPTICAL REPUBLICAN POLITICIAN CONTRACTS CORONAVIRUS

We had quite the crop this week

Do any of them have it or were they just in contact with someone who does?

Really the latter, I expect this will be bumped in less than a week though

No no, they will simply retire to spend more time with their families.

My preemptive thoughts and prayers.

I am def praying on this

The first virus that mutates from infecting other animals to humans and on to... something else.

Meadows the latest to self quarantine lol

If only coronavirus was flesh-eating as well. I want some Raiders of the Lost Ark style face melting of Nazis.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/486744-trump-has-not-been-tested-for-coronavirus-white-house-says

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="in" dir="ltr">Mick Mulvaney at CPAC: <a href="https://t.co/ytMWhaWVGh";>pic.twitter.com/ytMWhaWVGh</a></p>— ElElegante101 (@skolanach) <a href="

Mick Mulvaney at CPAC: pic.twitter.com/ytMWhaWVGh

— ElElegante101 (@skolanach) March 8, 2020

https://nypost.com/2019/06/16/trump-asks-mulvaney-to-leave-the-room-for-coughing-during-interview/

It was written:

1:29 AM - Jun 17, 2019

President Trump wanted to boot his chief of staff Mick Mulvaney out of the Oval Office — for coughing during an interview, according to footage of the sit-down with ABC News that aired Sunday.

Trump was in the middle of answering a question from “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos about whether he would cough up his financial statement to the Senate, when he abruptly asked to do another take.

“No, at some point, I might [turn it over],” Trump said. “It’s a fantastic financial statement — And let’s do that over, he’s coughing in the middle of my answer.”

“I don’t like that, you know, I don’t like that,” Trump continued.

Stephanopoulos clarified: “Your chief of staff.”

“If you’re going to cough, please leave the room,” Trump responded. “You just can’t, you just can’t cough. Boy oh boy. Okay, do you want to do that a little differently …”

Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is quarantining after home, awaiting coronavirus test results. She is showing flu-like symptoms, per RNC.

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) March 14, 2020

Politico: Louie Gohmert, Texas Republican who refused to wear a mask, tests positive for coronavirus

Disappointed that we've didn't get any bumps between mid-March and now.

I assume many many many in R leadership have had the disease in the same way that i assume red states, brazil and... idk ru$$!4 to cook the books on their infected numbers

It's too early to predict and obviously there are just so many variables and moving parts, but just projecting from his raw tools I'd say that Louie Gohmert has what it takes to contract Covid four or even five times. The scouting comp here is Jair Bolsonaro. He's just that good.

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) July 29, 2020

i think that's the wrong metric for Gohmert. we really need to be looking at his CIAR: Coronavirus Infections Above Replacement. sure, anyone out there can get coronavirus, maybe spread it to a couple people - that's a Replacement level Coronavirus spreader. but Gohmert has what it takes to infect dozens of people, maybe even hundreds, all by himself. he could be a hall of famer. you cannot stop him, you can only hope to contain him

Bill Montgomery, who co-founded the student group Turning Point USA 7 years ago, dies of COVID at...80.

now do Charlie Kirk

Our government, and our media, have incinerated their credibility. So, is it any wonder that people are skeptical? #Coronavirus https://t.co/2IMVhLGbLn

— Herman Cain (@THEHermanCain) July 29, 2020

welp

Isn't Cain still in the hospital? I doubt that's him tweeting.

he's getting discharged very soon

From a cannon

Cos he dead

welp indeed

he died as he lived: putting incoherent nonsense and poorly worded slander on his social media

This is how I choose to remember him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2fKmeFR_ko

Is he the first of all these right-wing chumps to actually die of covid? These (for lack of a better term) target demographics keep catching it with mild symptoms, or recovering (a la Boris) with no complications.

Boris has enough complications in his life.

one more wouldn’t kill him

alas

https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/herman-cain-a-man-who-paved-the-way-for-donald-trump

Cain's chief of staff during his presidential run was Mark Block, "who lives in Wisconsin and now runs a company that sells products that combine CBD and cranberry-seed oil. Cain served on its board."

Block felt certain that Cain would be remembered as the man who paved the way for Trump. “I’ve had dozens if not hundreds of people saying that what we did with Mr. Cain’s Presidential campaign laid the groundwork for Trump,” he said. “And I really do believe that.” He added, “We used to always say, ‘Let Cain be Cain.’ The Trump campaign did the same thing and still does.”

Even after Cain received his covid-19 diagnosis, he remained stalwart in his Trump-like opposition to wearing masks. When Governor Kristi Noem, of South Dakota, announced earlier this month that masks would not be required for those attending Trump’s recent Mount Rushmore visit, Cain tweeted his support from the hospital, in all caps: “PEOPLE ARE FED UP!” Block told me, “When covid hit, he was very careful about doing the things C.D.C. said. So I was a little surprised by the picture you saw of him in Tulsa without a mask on.” He added, “Maybe he made an exception that day.” He went on, “He’d done a lot of travelling that week, who knows where he got it.”

“I know that President Trump has a great deal of respect for Mr. Cain,” Block said. “And I know that Mr. Cain was looking forward to being on the campaign trail for the President this fall.”

Anti-mask FL GOP bookkeeper dies of COVID, leaves organization without access to financial accounts