CPP: Handicapping Mississippi Governor's Race | Austin Barbour

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🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Chase Parham sits down with political consultant Austin Barbour of the Clearwater Group, a public affairs firm based in Jackson, Miss. They discuss the 2027 Mississippi gubernatorial election including what's expected to be a crowded republican field. Find out which candidates are expected to run and what the landscape might look like as more entries occur over the summer. Also, will Michael Watson have a candidate of note in the lieutenant governor race. The elections are more than a year away, but they'll soon occupy a lot of space in the Magnolia State. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Welcome in to another edition of the show talking a little Mississippi politics today with Austin
0:12.1	Barber, Clearwater Group, public policy firm, kind of our, one of our in-house political
0:18.3	people there with NPW Digital. I feel like I've got you and retainer,
0:21.8	I've got Hogan Gidley, some others, depending on the topic they were talking about.
0:26.2	But a lot of people that I know, a lot of people of interest, Austin,
0:29.7	the governor's race in Mississippi coming up,
0:32.9	not too terribly far away, starting to see candidates do positioning there
0:37.0	and what should be quite
0:39.1	the wild ride, at least through the Republican part of the election.
0:44.4	We'll get into that a little bit.
0:45.4	We'll get into Lieutenant Governor a little bit.
0:47.4	Michael Watson, Secretary of State has put his hat in the ring for that position and more.
0:53.3	But great to catch up with you, Austin. Good to see you this morning and good to get just a little bit of information on where we stand a good ways away. But like I said, I feel like it's already starting to heat up a little bit. Oh, yeah. And so listen, I haven't gotten my retainer check from you yet. So I guess that will be you, you know, letting me call you. I used a bad word, didn't I there? I put myself into a, into a corner. You did. But I consider my retainer check to be when I can call you and go, no, wait a minute. What just happened with the football team or baseball or whatever? So that's fine. I enjoy talking to you because I get to turn it around a little bit because, you know, I get so many calls.
1:28.7	people go, hey, what's up with football and baseball?
1:30.4	And instead I get to go, no, no, no, politics, go.
1:32.5	Explain this to me.
1:33.9	Tell me what's going on.
1:35.8	And I think that's a great place to start.
1:37.8	Because like I said, we obviously have a ton of Mississippi listeners and people that are just interested into the imaginations of what's going on inside the Magnolia State.
1:39.7	So let's start really broad here. people that are just interested into the imaginations of what's going on inside the Magnolia State.
1:46.0	So let's start really broad here.
1:46.1	If somebody's paid zero attention since Tate Reeves was reelected and hasn't been paying attention,
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