Top 5 GOP Candidates Who Didn’t Run but Could Have Beaten Hillary

4. Sen. Tim Scott

Scott, a United States Senator who also hails from South Carolina, would be a strong candidate to compete against Clinton, as he would undoubtedly reach minority voters who cannot imagine voting for Clinton. Scott is the first black Republican elected to the United States Senate since the election of Edward Brooke in 1966, and the first black Senator of any party elected in the South since 1881 (four years after the end of Reconstruction). Scott is also the first African American to have been elected to both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

He would be an amazing asset to a GOP that has, for years, had a terrible public relations problem with the African-American community. Scott would potentially be able to recruit young African-American voters, as Scott famously gave a personal speech on the Senate floor about the “sadness and humiliation” of being targeted by police as an African-American man.