Dozens of former Republican officials who view the party as unwilling to oppose former US President Donald Trump and 'his attempts to undermine U.S. democracy, are in talks to form a center-right breakaway party', four people involved in the discussions told Reuters.

Former elected Republicans, former Republican officials from the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump, and former ambassadors and strategists from the Republican Party, the sources say.

Over 120 of them made a Zoom call last Friday to discuss the splinter group that will operate on a platform of principled conservatism, including adherence to the Constitution and the rule of law - ideas that participants said were defeated by Trump.

Evan McMullin, who was the chief political director of the House Republican Conference and ran as an independent candidate in the 2016 presidential election, told Reuters that he was one of the organizers of a video call with former officials worried about Trump's attitude towards Republicans and the party's nativist turn.

Three more anonymous sources confirmed to Reuters that the call took place.

Among the call participants were John Mitnick, general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security under Trump; former Republican congressman Charlie Dent; Elizabeth Neumann, deputy chief of staff in the Homeland Security Department under Trump; and Miles Taylor, another former Trump homeland security official.