The Washington Post reports:

In June, as Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) began to get a little momentum in the presidential primary, a person working on behalf of one of Scott’s Republican opponents messaged me, asking to chat. “Have you seen the video,” he asked over the phone, conspiratorially, “where he says he has a girlfriend?” The Republican operative who called me wasn’t sure said girlfriend existed. He suggested I look into it. He followed up on our conversation with an email that included a dossier of Scott’s known personal relationships. “No fingerprints,” he said.

I decided that, yes, I would try to figure out whether Tim Scott has a girlfriend. But I would also investigate a deeper question: Does anybody care? Matt Schlapp, the head of CPAC, asked me whom I thought Trump might choose as his 2024 running mate. When I mentioned Scott, Schlapp replied: “You think he picks a gay vice president?” (Incidentally, Schlapp, who is married with five kids, was later accused of unwanted groping by a male staffer on Herschel Walker’s Senate campaign. He has denied the allegations.)

Read the full article. Gift link here. The piece takes pains to note that there’s no evidence that Scott is anything but a confirmed bachelor “in the most literal sense of the phrase.” But as you can see above, the cult still spreads the gay rumors.