The Republican Party's only black senator Tim Scott has launched his bid to become its candidate for the 2024 presidential election. Mr Scott filed his candidacy for the GOP nomination on Friday but kicked off his campaign officially with a speech to supporters in his hometown of North Charleston, South Carolina on Monday. The 57-year-old South Carolina senator is the highest profile Republican to officially take on Donald Trump for the 2024 nomination so far. "Joe Biden and the radical left are attacking every rung of the ladder that helped me climb," Scott said. "And that is why I am...