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By now, you\u2019ve probably seen the 2005 video of Donald Trump bragging to then\u2013Access Hollywood\u2019s Billy Bush about his aggressive groping and kissing of women. If you\u2019re running for election as a Republican, it may have encouraged you to change your strategy. (Arizona Senator John McCain dropped his endorsement. GOP House Leader Paul Ryan has said he\u2019ll stop campaigning for Trump.) But so far, Trump\u2019s most vocal evangelical supporters\u2014including James Dobson, Eric Metaxas, Tony Perkins, and Jerry Falwell\u2014haven\u2019t wavered in their support. (Read CT\u2019s full report.) \u201cThe whole thing is baffling yet predictable,\u201d said Jemar Tisby, the president and co-founder of the Reformed African American Network. While allegations of Trump\u2019s previous sexual attacks on women currently make the news, his campaign won the primary while proposing a ban on Muslims from entering the US and attacking a Mexican-American judge for his heritage, actions indicative of a larger thread in Republican history, said Tisby. \u201cThat Donald Trump, out of 16 candidates, would end up being the nominee is on one hand utterly perplexing. On the other hand it doesn\u2019t surprise me in the sense that what he\u2019s playing to what has been present in the GOP for decades,\u201d he said. But will this be true in the future? \u201cI\u2019ve seen a lot of people want to say \u2018The Religious Right is finished. They don\u2019t have the clout that they had,\u2019\u201d said Matthew Lee Anderson, the founder of Mere Orthodoxy. \u201cI think that it\u2019s way too premature to say that sort of thing. We do need a couple of election cycles\u2026One of the things that I will watch very carefully will be what happens at Liberty University on November 8.\u201d Tisby and Anderson join Morgan and Christianity Today\u2019s editor-in-chief, Mark Galli, on Quick to Listen this week to discuss what has and has not changed for evangelicals following the latest Trump scandal, how Billy Graham\u2019s political philosophy shaped Christian engagement, and what personal blind spots have been revealed in their own lives over the course of the election.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices