 who are saying absolutely they're standing behind the president they want the democratic party to rally behind him and they're issuing sort of a warning that having this type of dysfunction so close to the november election could actually hurt the party abc's rachel scott the republican party will have its first new platform since 2016 the platform committee adopting a policy document opposing a federal abortion ban leaving that to individual states but supporting access to birth control lara trump gop co-chair says it reflects donald trump's views