IMMIGRATION, BUT OVERALL, PRAISE
FOR THE PRESIDENTS PERSONALITY.
LIFE-LONG REPUBLICAN SANDY ORTH
IN IOWA VOTED FOR HER PARTYS
CANDIDATE IN 2016, BUT LAST
YEAR?
>> THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO WAY
THAT I COULD HAVE VOTED FOR
DONALD TRUMP AGAIN.
>> Reporter: SO THIS NOVEMBER,
SHE MADE A DIFFERENT DECISION.
>> I REALLY FEEL THAT JOE BIDEN
HAD THE TEMPERAMENT TO HELP HEAL
OUR COUNTRY.
>> Reporter: HOW DO YOU FEEL
ABOUT HIM NOW?
>> I THINK HE IS TRYING VERY,
VERY HARD TO UNITE THE COUNTRY.
>> Reporter: IS THERE ANYTHING
OF THE LAST 100 DAYS OF
PRESIDENT BIDEN THAT YOU HAVE
SOME DISCOMFORT WITH, THAT YOU
ARE NOT ON BOARD WITH?
>> WELL, THE SITUATION AT THE
BORDER.
HE JUST HASNT COME UP WITH THE
RIGHT SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM
YET.
>> Reporter: ORTHS VIEW OF THE
PRESIDENT, HIGH MARKS ON UNITY,
HESITATION ON IMMIGRATION,
REFLECTS HOW MANY AMERICANS FEEL
100 DAYS IN.
OUR NEW NBC NEWS POLLING SHOWS 7
IN 10 VOTERS APPROVE OF HOW
PRESIDENT BIDEN IS HANDLING THE
PANDEMIC, AND MORE THAN HALF SAY
HE IS DOING WELL ON THE ECONOMY
AND UNITING THE COUNTRY.
BUT ONLY ABOUT 3 IN 10 VOTERS
APPROVE OF HIS WORK ON
IMMIGRATION, WITH A RECORD
NUMBER OF UNACCOMPANIED MIGRANT
CHILDREN CROSSING THE BORDER.
AN ISSUE ESPECIALLY RELEVANT IN
ARIZONA, A STATE THAT FLIPPED
BLUE IN 2020, PARTLY BECAUSE OF
VOTERS IN MARICOPA COUNTY.
>> I THINK I WAS PROBABLY BUILD
A WALL GUY.
BUT THATS OBVIOUSLY NOT BEEN
THE ANSWER, HAS IT?
>> Reporter: LARRY LIVES THERE
AND HASNT EVER VOTED FOR A
DEMOCRAT FOR PRESIDENT UNTIL
NOVEMBER.
>> I THINK BIDEN IS IN THERE
TRYING TO FACE THIS PROBLEM AND
WORK WITH IT.
>> Reporter: FOR JOY KINZER IN
OKLAHOMA CITY, THE PRESIDENTS
PLEDGE ON REFUGEES IS PART OF
THE REASON SHE VOTED FOR HIM,
AFTER RELUCTANTLY BACKING DONALD
TRUMP FOUR YEARS EARLIER.
DID THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY
GALVANIZE YOU TO BE MORE
POLITICALLY AWARE AND INVOLVED?
>> THATS FAIR TO SAY.
>> Reporter: LAST WEEK,
PRESIDENT BIDEN FIRST
BACKTRACKED ON A PROMISE TO
RAISE THE REFUGEE LIMIT, THEN
AFTER BACKLASH, RECONSIDERED.
>> I DO THINK THAT WE SAW THAT
WE NEEDED TO KEEP THE PRESSURE
UP TO ASK HIM TO KEEP HIS WORD
AND TO KEEP HIS CAMPAIGN
PROMISES WHEN IT COMES TO
REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT.
>> Reporter: WHAT SCORECARD
WOULD YOU GIVE HIM FOR THE FIRST
100 DAYS SO FAR?
>> I FELT HUMANITY HAD COME BACK
TO THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT.
>> Reporter: AGAIN AND AGAIN,
NEW DEMOCRATIC VOTERS, LIKE
ORTH, RUME, AND KINZER CITED
TEMPERAMENT FOR WHY THEY FELT
CONFIDENT IN HIS FIRST 100 DAYS.
BUT THE UNITY, THAT IS PROVING
ILLUSIVE, AS THE PENAS
ILLUSTRATE.
THE MOTHER/DAUGHTER DUO JOINED
US IN MIAMI BEFORE THE ELECTION.
ISA VOTED FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN.
BARBARA DID NOT.
WE CHECKED BACK IN WITH THEM 100
DAYS IN.
WHEN
>> WHEN YOU HAVE AOS SAYING HE
HAS EXCEEDED HER EXPECTATIONS IN
THE FIRST 100 DAYS, THAT MAKES
ME SHUTTER.
>> I THINK BIDEN IS DOING A
GREAT JOB OF BRINGING THE DRAMA
DOWN.
>> Reporter: A DIVIDED FAMILY
REFLECTING A DIVIDED NATION,
WITH MANY HOPING FOR HEALING.
>> IM NOT CONVINCED THAT IT IS
IMPOSSIBLE, BUT IT IS GOING TO
TAKE TIME.
IT IS GOING TO TAKE MORE TIME
THAN 100 DAYS, YEAH.
>> Reporter: THAT ISSUE OF
UNITING THE COUNTRY IS ONE THAT
PRESIDENT BIDEN IS GOING TO TALK
ABOUT IN HIS SPEECH TONIGHT.
A WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL TELLING
ME HE WILL TALK ABOUT THE POWER
OF COMING TOGETHER TO DEAL WITH
SOME THE ISSUES FACING OUR
COUNTRY, AND, ACTUALLY, THE
ISSUE OF UNITY IS CONSIDERED THE
SECOND MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE TO
FOLKS WE POLLED IN OUR RECENT
NBC NEWS POLLING.
THE FIRST, GETTING A HANDLE ON
THE COVID CRISIS, SOMETHING ELSE
WELL HEAR THE PRESIDENT TALK
ABOUT.
BACK TO YOU.
>> HALLIE, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
ANOTHER REMINDER, THE
PRESIDENTS FIRST SPEECH TO
CONGRESS IS TONIGHT.
NBC NEWS WILL HAVE LIVE
COVERAGE.
IT STARTS AT 9:00 EASTERN, 6:00