"Watch what they do, not what they say" is a useful principle, here. There's no reason to take his attempt to self-label as a centrist at face value, but there's mountains of evidence that he seeks to amplify the right.
Their data includes upstanding examples of Conservatism such as The American Nazi Party. I kid you not. There's a bunch of accounts in their set where you can have a reasonable discussion about where the limits should be, but tons of them are literal actual self-described Nazis. There's an overview at e.g. [2].
So yes, colour me sceptical on these types of claims.
[1]: https://quillette.com/2019/02/12/it-isnt-your-imagination-tw...
[2]: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quillette#Banning_Neo-Nazis_is...