Henry Bailey, Nathan Nazareth, Oden Calvert and Eric Stellato, all Drexel University graduates, said tonight's Vote for Freedom rally was the first political event any of them had attended — and that they skipped class to get in line earlier.

“It’s historic,” Stellato said. “We need to show our support and show that people generally care. Even people like us.”

When asked what he meant, Stellato explained that he might not fit the mold of someone who would be immediately identified as a Harris supporter.

“We may not be vocal about it, we may not wear things or anything 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 mind over the next four years. He said going to college afterward was also a big change.

“I think we’re seeing it now with a lot of people — they see it as something more edgy, something rebellious,” he said of supporting Trump. “If you're uninformed, his stuff might sound whatever. Then when you realize he’s lying every single sentence, you realize that maybe you can learn better.”

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

Bailey, a registered Democrat who describes himself as a moderate, agreed that he is concerned about women's reproductive rights under a second Trump presidency. Bailey said that while he sometimes wishes Harris would be more conservative on certain issues, such as immigration, he believes the Republican Party as it stands today is a “complete sham.”

“Even if there are things I don’t agree with her on, she’s a lot better than Donald Trump,” Bailey said. “He has made it clear that he does not believe in certain things when it comes to the Constitution. And it is also clear that it is for the rich. He is a rich president. Not that we haven't had rich presidents, but he's definitely much more, I think, Hollywood-ish.”

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