She was later identified by a person close to the campaign as Mindy Noce, Mr. Scott’s girlfriend and a design and renovations manager for a real estate company in the Charleston, S.C., area.
Even the pictures taken at his debate lectern with his girlfriend had the feel of being the final souvenirs from a stalled campaign.
Mr. Scott entered the race as an underdog, but had proven to be a strong fund-raiser with the party’s base of online, small-dollar donors.
Still, Mr. Scott, who champions himself as a “happy warrior,” remains an optimist.
I’ll be on the stage.”The emergence of Mr. Scott’s companion onstage, like her emergence in the campaign itself, took a while.
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