I'll take a look at dude's new book, but this tweet isn't promising. Watts is a self-aggrandizing extremist whose easily debunked smears have done a lot of damage to her own cause. Also, within pro-gun-control circles everyone knows she's toxic, & Busse surely knows this.
https://twitter.com/ryandbusse/status/1450623648067248128
By foregrounding Watts' endorsement, it's crystal clear that Busse isn't trying to reach out to "reasonable gun owners." If that were his audience, he'd steer clear of her. I suspect he's positioning himself to run for office as a Dem, so this book is some red meat.
He'll probably do really well at fundraising with this bit. Whether he'll get elected, I dunno. But there's a certain kind of Dem activist and donor who eats up this "former fundie/gun nut/military/etc. => whistleblower" type of branding, no matter how often it fails at the polls
He's definitely running. Everything he writes is a campaign document about how down-home he is. 
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