El-Sayed: "Look, everybody tells me how it's a big risk to be taking questions down the stretch, 2 weeks away. 'Why don't you just give your speech and walk off the stage?' Because I believe people deserve the right to ask questions. Sometimes it's going to be bad faith Republican plants, most often it's good faith folks who just want an answer."

El-Sayed: "People like JD Vance think America is too small for some of us. I think America is big enough. I think America has been big enough to include people like JD Vance, people like me, people whose families came here, people who were here before anybody else showed up, or people whose ancestors were brought here despite themselves. I think America is big enough for all of us. His view of America is small. It's small like him. It's small-minded."