As President Donald Trump trails in polls before the presidential election on Tuesday, the right-wing media have continued to blast out a fantastical narrative that Trump is the last bulwark between the United States and leftist anarchy. Few places has that message been more clear than on conservative and Christian radio.

Last month, Salem Radio Network host Kevin McCullough appeared on the show of Eric Metaxas, a nationally syndicated host and author who also serves on the presidents evangelical advisory council, to forecast a landslide Trump victory in the election. McCullough condemned the Democratic Party for what he called a culture of abortion, a culture of sexual anarchy as he talked about his voting predictions.

Metaxas falsely described Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris as literally the most liberal senator who exists in the Senate and then went on a racist diatribe questioning whether Harris is really Black.

Its this cynical thing about picking somebody who is supposedly Black. I think I am far darker than she is, and shes married, of course, to a white man, Metaxas, who is white, told listeners.

Salem Radio Network is a group of radio and publishing enterprises started in the 1980s that has grown into a media powerhouse that reaches listeners in every corner of the country. It has openly celebrated Trumps 2016 victory as a boon for its business and its many shows, with Senior Vice President Phil Boyce calling the president a game changer for our format and the gift that keeps on giving during a speech at an industry conference in 2018. As Trumps attacks on fact-based media outlets have eroded trust in mainstream news sources among conservatives, right-wing radio has offered an alternative reality in which pro-Trump listeners can hear only what they want.

Our listeners despise the mainstream media. You can capitalize on that despisement, Boyce said at the 2018 conference.

The symbiotic, cynical relationship between Christian media and Trump appears to be mutual. Trump has long admired the profitable empires of televangelists and megachurch pastors even while privately deriding their faith. Former aides and close allies have recounted Trump mocking faith leaders as hustlers and ridiculing religious beliefs while also viewing them as important resources for securing voters. And, leading up to the election, Trump has sunk money into radio ads, leveraged a sprawling network of right-wing hosts and sent out surrogates to shore up support among his base.

While most radio networks and media outlets tend to value profits above any ideological mission and may employ hosts across the political spectrum, experts say Salems dogmatic adherence to right-wing Christian views makes it unusual even in the generally conservative world of talk radio.

Salem is the exception. Salem is an explicitly conservative, explicitly Christian company, said Brian Rosenwald, author of Talk Radios America and a fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.They want you to be on the Republican team, and they want their hosts to stick to that formula.

Executives at Salem have described the company as a vanguard in the culture war, and the daily lineup on one of Salems stations, called The Answer, is a parade of Trump allies and misinformation peddlers. Its roster includes right-wing activists Charlie Kirk and Dennis Prager; former White House official Sebastian Gorka; and Jay Sekulow, who was as one of Trumps lead attorneys during the impeachment case.