Tim Scott's bachelorhood puts spotlight on how few US presidents have been single
Experts say the presidential spouse's role has been key, too -- but is changing. South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is one of the relatively few people who has ever run for president of the United States. If elected, he would join an even more elite club -- as one of only three White House occupants to be unmarried at the time he took office. Scott's bachelorhood isn't directly on the ballot in the same way his policies on the economy and abortion are. But it's become a headline-making topic on the campaign trail and, historians and experts told ABC News, it reflects the political ramifications of having a partner even as society's attitudes around relationships have shifted through the years. Scott, a Republican, has a standard answer for the curious or the chatty, including anonymous sources who claimed to the news website Axios that the matter was affecting potential donors. "I'm dating a lovely Christian girl," Scott enthusiastically said in Iowa ...