Tim Scott marries girlfriend in weekend ceremony

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) is no longer a bachelor.

Scott, 58, married interior designer and mother of three Mindy Noce, 47, on Saturday in their native South Carolina. The ceremony took place at Seacoast Church in Mount Pleasant.

“Tonight, we promised to cherish and nourish each other and our marriage for the rest of our lives,” Scott posted on social media. “Mindy, you’ve made me the happiest man alive. I love you.”

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and former South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, now a Fox News host, were among the guests.

Scott’s marital status became a topic of political interest when he announced his 2024 Republican presidential primary campaign, including in a Washington Post expose last September, in which the senator told the news outlet he had a girlfriend and that the couple attended Bible study classes and pickleball matches together. The outlet wrote it had found no evidence that “she exists.” Scott went on to tell an Iowa evangelical forum later that week he was dating “a lovely Christian girl.”

“One of the things I love about the gospel of Jesus Christ is it points us always in the right direction. Proverbs 18:22 says, ‘He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord,’” Scott said.

“As a guy who was raised in a single-parent household mired in poverty, I understand the devastation when a family breaks up,” he added. “I had to live with the consequences of a father who was not there. I made a commitment to make sure that never happened in my life.”

Scott would later bring Noce to the third primary debate in Miami last November. He declined to answer a shouted question from the Washington Examiner about her, but he told other reporters at the time they had been dating for “about a year or so.”