Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott got private at the campaign hearing amid increased speculation about the lifelong bachelor’s love life.
“I’m dating a beautiful Christian girl,” the South Carolina senator told Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird when asked at the Faith and Freedom Coalition in Des Moines Saturday.
“One of the things I love about the gospel of Jesus Christ is that it always points us in the right direction. Proverbs 18:22 says, ‘Whoever gets a wife gets good things and finds favor with God,’” Scott continued.
“So can we pray together for me,” he added to laughter from the crowd.
Bird had asked Scott, 57, if “besides your mother, is there a special woman in your life?” The investigation comes after a lengthy Washington Post story last week that delved into the senator’s love life.
The outlet noted that it could not independently verify its existence other than “to note that for a presidential campaign to flip an American catfish is basically insane.”
Tim Scott has kept his girlfriend’s identity a secret.Twitter
Scott reluctantly spoke about his girlfriend to the press, telling how a friend from church fixed them both.
Scott’s campaign declined to reveal his name or host an off-the-record chat with him.
One of Scott’s close friends, Brian Moniz, the son of the late 57-year-old mentor John Moniz, told the newspaper that he did not know about the girlfriend.
The South Carolina senator is the only major undergraduate in the 2024 election system. AP
Tim Scott left the door open to telling the public more about his partner at some point in the future. Getty Images
He also didn’t realize that Scott was engaged, Scott let slip on CNN a few years ago.
Still, at least one person has met Scott’s girlfriend — his 2024 campaign manager, Jennifer DeCasper, who claims to have hung out with the mystery woman at the zoo.
Scott publicly revealed that he had a girlfriend in May.
Talk of Scott’s dating life led to some concern among donors, according to an Axios report from late August.
The donor reportedly wanted more specifics about Scott’s single status.
Currently, he is the only major contender in either party who has never been married. It’s been over 139 years since an unmarried man ascended to the Oval Office.
James Buchanan, speculated to be the first gay president remained celibate after he assumed the presidency in 1856.
“An Old Bachelor is at most but half a man,” The New York Evening Post, as The New York Post was then known said of Buchanan’s time. “How can a person like that be more than half the President?”
Scott’s counterpart in South Carolina, Sen. Lindsey Graham, previously ran for president in 2016 and is unmarried, though he has publicly thought that his sister might serve as first lady in the rotation.
Despite Scott’s bachelor status, the senator “always had a way with the ladies,” according to Moniz.
The main reason why he hasn’t been able to tie the knot with anyone is because of his very busy work schedule, Moniz said.
“It’s a challenge, especially for the women in his life all this time,” Moniz told the Washington Post. “They were put on the back burner. Women have been hanging around for a while, and they realize that they’re not going to be a priority now.”
Scott currently ranks seventh with 2.5% support in the latest RealClearPolitics polling aggregate.
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