More than two dozen former Republican politicians have endorsed Joe Biden for the US Presidency, on the first day of the Republican National Convention.
The 27 former members of Congress joined a "Republicans for Biden" initiative organised by the Biden campaign to encourage Republican support for the Democrat nominee.
They cited President Trump's "corruption, destruction of democracy, blatant disregard for moral decency, and urgent need to get the country back on course" as reasons for the move.
Former Republican senator Jeff Flake, explaining his decision to vote for a Democratic nominee for the first time, said: "I was a Republican long before the president ever called himself one, and I'll be a Republican long after identifying as such is no longer useful to him."
"Given what we have experienced over the past four years, it's not enough just to register our disapproval of the president.
"We need to elect someone else in his place, someone who will stop the chaos and reverse the damage."
The former politicians are only the latest Republican group to endorse Mr Biden and in the US election, illustrating how the president has alienated members of his own party.
Last week, 73 former Republican national security officials, including former chiefs of the FBI and CIA, endorsed Mr Biden while calling Mr Trump unfit to serve.
Opposition groups object to Mr Trump's alienation of US allies abroad and his leadership at home, including his response to the coronavirus pandemic that has killed over 176,000 Americans.
The Trump campaign has described the groups as disaffected former officials "trying to take down the duly elected President of the United States."
