Henry Bailey, Nathan Nazareth, Oden Calvert and Eric Stellato, all seniors at Drexel University, said tonight’s “Vote for Freedom” rally was the first political event they had all been to — and that they had skipped class to get early to stand in line.

“It’s historic,” Stellato said. “We need to show our support and show that, I don’t know, people generally care about this. Even people like us.”

When asked what he meant, Stellato explained that he might not fit the image of someone you would immediately identify as a Harris supporter.

“We might not speak out about it, we might not wear things or things like that, or post about it or anything like that,” he said. “But that doesn’t mean we don’t care, you know? And we definitely talk about it with our friends and have serious conversations.

Stellato said he liked Trump in 2016 when he was a teenager and “didn’t know any better,” but changed his opinion over the next four years. Then going to college, he said, was also a big change.

“I think we’re seeing it in a lot of people now — they see it as something edgier, something rebellious to do,” he said of his support for Trump. “If you’re not in the know, his stuff might sound whatever. Once you realize he’s lying every sentence, you start to realize that maybe you’ll learn better.

Stellato said he worried that his father, an Ecuadorian immigrant who is now a U.S. citizen, could be harmed by what he said could be a sweeping and disorganized mass deportation under Trump’s presidency. He also worries about his gay and transgender friends, as well as the women in his life.

Bailey, a registered Democrat who considers himself a moderate, agreed that he was concerned about women’s reproductive rights under a second Trump presidency. Bailey said that while he sometimes wishes Harris were more conservative on certain issues, such as immigration, he thinks the Republican Party as it stands now is a “total sham.”

“Even if there are things I disagree with her on, it’s way better than Donald Trump,” Bailey said. “He has made it clear that he does not believe in certain things as far as the Constitution is concerned. And it is also clear that he is for the rich. He is a rich president. Not that we haven’t had rich presidents, but he’s clearly much more, I think, Hollywood.”

The group of four said they were excited, nervous and “cautiously optimistic” about what Election Day would bring.