... has his beliefs, but he is a compromiser.
Nothing wrong with that.
But this is a change election (aren't they all). Folks seem to want clarity rather than mush, and to be thinking "will this person be prepared to fight fire with fire against Trump".
Being a prosecutor seems like better training than spending decades in a debate chamber with a bunch of ancient money-raisers trying to find common ground and mostly finding it in the status quo.