In their desperate quest to find a 2024 alternative to former President Donald Trump, GOP donors have stumbled upon an elephant in the room: Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is single.

That fact, long known among casual political observers, has suddenly sparked “curiosity” and a round of pearl-clutching among the GOP’s well-heeled donors, some of whom spoke to Axios anonymously given the “sensitivity of the issue.” As Axios notes, the country has not put a bachelor in the White House since Grover Cleveland in 1884.