The Never Trump Republicans who can’t bring themselves to back Biden

Mike Pence, Chris Christie and Paul Ryan refuse to vote for the president despite calling Trump unfit - and their harshest critics are fellow Republicans

They have broken with Donald Trump. They have gone public with their concerns about the threat that he poses to democracy and the rule of law. But vote for Joe Biden? That is a bridge too far.

A split has emerged in the Never Trump" movement in the Republican party. There are some who denounce the former US president and contend that, in what is essentially a two-party system, there is a moral imperative to vote for his Democratic opponent in November.