In his 50 years of voting in US elections, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J Chaput has said he has never seen the two major parties offer "two such deeply flawed" presidential nominees "at the same time".

Without naming the nominees – Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton – the archbishop said he presumed they "intend well and have a reasonable level of personal decency behind their public images, but I also believe that each candidate is very bad news for our country, though in different ways.