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Michael Watson

Michael Watson

Mississippi Secretary of State

Jun 22, 2026

11:18
Yeah.
11:18
I say little girls.
11:19
They're, they're getting big now.
11:20
Um, 15, 13, and about to be 8 next week.
11:23
So, uh, we got a house full of, of a lot of fun.
11:26
But that said, um, in that, in that visit with those, uh, young leaders, it, it hit me.
11:31
Look, here, here's our future.

11 MINS LATER

22:28
I don't wanna date you, but I think you guys started pretty young.
21:48
What does success look like? You get elected and four years later, what, what, what, what can be accomplished in the next four years? Where, where are we as a state, and what's a priority there?
21:57
Yeah, really good question.
21:59
I, I think for me, [clears throat] secretary of state's office, you know, uh, success is did you leave it better than you found it? And I can say a resounding yes.
22:06
Um, you know, uh, and I can walk out of here right now, not to mention we got a year and a half of work left there, but I can walk out right now and, and say I've, I've left it better than I found it.
22:15
And I think that's what you look at, at lieutenant governor's office, except this, that goes from the Office of Lieutenant Governor to the State of Mississippi.
22:23
Did you leave the state better? Uh, and I can say that for the secretary of state's office.
22:27
We left the office better than we found it.

18 MINS LATER

40:55
What's gotta happen for Mississippi to be, quote, "winning" between now and then? What, what, what, what does, what does Mississippi look like in 2035 that is a success?

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