‘I’m thinking he would have to have a split personality to do the things that she said.’
In her first major public appearance, Gloria Cain, wife of presidential candidate Herman Cain, defended her husband against past allegations of sexual harassment in a Fox News interview set to air Monday night.
Cain tells host Greta Van Susteren that she heard the “graphic” and “disrespectful” allegations against her husband, but said, “I know that’s not the person he is. He totally respects women.”
Most Republicans shrug at Cain allegations, according to poll
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has spent the week battling accusations that he sexually harassed female employees while he was president of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. But according to the first major poll released since the story broke on Sunday, most Republican-leaning voters say the new revelations have not changed their opinion of the candidate.
In a Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted since the first story was published, 70 percent of the Republicans said that the allegations would not change their voting decision. Twenty-three percent said the story made them less likely to support him and 4 percent said they were now more likely.
Cain/Reporter relationship not going so well
“What did I say?” Cain, who was flanked by aides and bodyguards, interrupted.
The reporter kept asking.
“Excuse me,” Cain said. “Excuse me!”
“What part of no don’t these people understand?” he said to himself as he walked away.
—Herman Cain snaps at reporters asking about harassment allegations
Cain has banner fundraising week after sexual harassment allegations surface
The news media’s focus on past accusations of sexual harassment this week hasn’t been all bad for Herman Cain. His presidential campaign raised at least $350,000 since Politico published its story Sunday night, a source close the campaign told Yahoo News.
Mark Block, Cain’s chief of staff, said Tuesday that the campaign had raised $250,000 online, but the latest information shows that contributors have given at least $300,000, campaign spokesman J.D. Gordon confirmed.
The night of Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan:
Virtually all the candidates at the debate table had something to say about Cain’s plan to replace the tax code with three, flat nine-percent federal taxes on consumption, business and income. Cain, once delegated to the remote wings of the debate stage, has enjoyed a surge in the polls ever since he won the straw poll in Orlando, Fla., last month, and at the first debate since he joined former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry in the top tier, Cain and his policy proposals took up more of the debate’s time than the ideas floated by any other candidate. Of course, this isn’t to say that any of them praised Cain’s idea. Far from it. In fact, everyone who had an opportunity took shots at the plan.
Former Utah Gov. Huntsman reduced it to “a catchy phrase” and joined former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum in saying it would never be signed into law.
Herman Cain nominated for ‘Mustached American of the Year’ Award:
Cain “represents a shining beacon of light for the Mustached American community, as no Mustached American has sat in the Oval Office since William Howard Taft,” Aaron Perlut, the chairman of the American Mustache Institute, told The Ticket in an email. “Even more offensive, no major party-affiliated Mustached American has even run for the presidency since Thomas E. Dewey in 1948, although Bob Barr ran recently on the Libertarian ticket. So with all of this history — or a lack thereof if you are a person of Mustached American heritage — indeed, we see great promise in Mr. Cain’s candidacy and hope he ultimately earns the right to face President Obama next year.”
Mr. Caingrich did not immediately respond to a request from The Ticket for comment because he’s not real.
(Meet the new Republican front-runner: Newtman Caingrich | The Ticket)
