As the Detroit Auto Show in Michigan makes a comeback after a three-year hiatus, ABC News hit the ground in the state as well as the University of Michigan campus to speak to voters on the most important issues that are on their minds.

The state is gearing up to be ground zero of a battle over abortion rights after the state Supreme Court ordered the inclusion of a ballot initiative that seeks to enshrine abortion rights in the state and will be voted on in November. The initiative was originally deadlocked by the board of canvassers in August.

Sam Dubose and Stephen Oduro, seniors at the University of Michigan, identify as pro-abortion rights and they believe the topic of abortion will influence many people to head to the polls on Election Day.

"I'm going to vote my conscience," Dubose told ABC News. "I know what I'm going to do."

Click here to read more views from Michigan voters -- on abortion and more.

-- ABC News' Paulina Tam and Elizabeth Thomas

Should he need them, auditory accommodations would be available in the U.S. Senate for Pennsylvania's Democratic hopeful John Fetterman, Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., told ABC News this weekend.

At a scheduled debate next month with Republican opponent Mehmet Oz, Fetterman will be able to use a closed-captioning system because of self-described “auditory processing” issues he’s dealt with since a stroke in May.

Before stumping for Fetterman on Saturday in Scranton, Casey said he believes the lieutenant governor is ready for the Senate and would not need the auditory accommodation by the time he’s sworn in.

“When it comes to the work of the Senate, most of the work, if you’re doing the job well, is listening to people, hearing what they have to say as your constituents, going to hearings, going to meetings, voting,” Casey told ABC News. “He’s going to be able to do all that and communicate effectively and I think he’s going to be a great senator.”

Asked if it would be possible to use closed captioning in those meetings, Casey said, “Oh sure, and we should have that. What if someone came to the Senate with a more permanent disability of some kind?”

Casey said the accommodation would be available “if it were necessary, but I don’t think by the time he gets there that will be necessary, but we’ll see.”

Meanwhile, Casey’s fellow Pennsylvania senator, Republican Pat Toomey said earlier this month at a press conference with Oz, “It’s just not possible to be an effective senator if you cannot communicate.”

-- ABC News' Will McDuffie

Democratic Senate nominee Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes has announced he's accepted an invitation from NBC-affiliate TMJ4 to debate his Republican opponent Sen. Ron Johnson on Oct. 13 in Milwaukee. Barnes also challenges Johnson to attend a forum in Oshkosh, with further details to be announced.

Barnes' campaign manager Kory Kozloski released the following statement: "Ron Johnson has spent over a decade in Washington selling out working families and calling to put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block. Mandela looks forward to holding him accountable for his record of putting himself and his wealthy donors first on the debate stage in Milwaukee, and then in his own backyard in Oshkosh."

Johnson had accused Barnes of "hiding" from him and said he was open to having three debates before the Nov. 8 election, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

ABC News has tracked which candidates are debating in key midterm races.

-ABC News' Paulina Tam.

Arkansas GOP gubernatorial nominee and former Trump White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared in a statement on Friday that she'd been diagnosed with thyroid cancer earlier this month but is now "cancer-free" following a surgery in Arkansas on Friday.

"This experience has been a reminder that whatever battle you may be facing, don't lose heart. As governor, I will never quit fighting for the people of our great state," the daughter to former Arkansas GOP Gov. Mike Huckabee said in a statement.

The surgery removed her thyroid and surrounding lymph nodes, she said. Her surgeon, John R. Sims, noted in a statement released by her campaign that he didn't anticipate this health scare slowing Sanders down ahead of the November general election.

"I expect her to be back on her feet even within the next 24 hours. This is a Stage I papillary thyroid carcinoma which is the most common type of thyroid cancer and has an excellent prognosis," he said.

Arizona's Libertarian Senate candidate Marc Victor dropped out of the race on Tuesday, putting his support behind Blake Masters, the Republican nominee.

His move, made a week ahead of Election Day, gives Trump-backed Masters a further boost as Victor's candidacy was forecasted to split off some of the Republican vote in the race to unseat incumbent Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly.

Victor told ABC News in a written statement Tuesday that Blake Masters approached him, agreeing to the Libertarian's offer to both his opponents on "why it was in the interests of freedom, peace, and civility for me to step down and endorse either of them." Their taped conversation "impressed" the Libertarian, Victor said, prompting him to drop out.

"I publicly offered to meet with either Mark Kelly or Blake Masters to have an unscripted discussion about why it was in the interests of freedom, peace, and civility for me to step down and endorse either of them," Victor told ABC News.

"Blake Masters availed himself of that opportunity yesterday, and we had a public conversation where I asked him whatever I wanted. I was impressed with Blake Masters and his commitment to being a Live and Let Live Senator from Arizona," Victor told ABC.

In the [,]() Victor said this decision to drop out one week before Election Day will make some people "very upset" and others "very happy."

Masters responded to the new support in a campaign press release.

"Marc Victor joins a growing list of Arizonans from across the political spectrum who are fed up with open borders, big government corruption, and rising crime. We are building a broad coalition to defeat the worst Senator in America. This is another major boost of momentum as we consolidate our support against the extreme and radical policies of Mark Kelly and Joe Biden. Live and Let Live," Masters said.

Victor will still be on the ballot, but any votes cast for him will not be tabulated, according to a spokesperson at the secretary of state's office.

--ABC News' Libby Cathey