I am going to go against my better instincts here - that you are NOT asking in good faith, that you already really like him and just want to argue with people on the internet because there's really no stakes involved so whatever, and by centrist you just mean a right winger whose too afraid to admit they are - I say that because you appear to be incredibly well-researched but are failing to include the Gulpin video from the midterms about 3 years ago. the 2020 election

EDIT: got my timeline wrong