Eight-mile-long People's Convoy raises more than $850,000 in donations

The People's Convoy, which has raised nearly $1 million in donations, flooded a New Mexico highway Friday as the scores of truckers protesting COVID-19 mask and vaccine mandates entered day three of their cross-country trip to Washington, D.C.A photograph taken by convoy leader Mike Landis shows the group, comprised of approximately two dozen semi-trucks and about 100 other vehicles, traveling eastbound on I-40, about 15 miles west Albuquerque near the Route 66 Casino, in a motorcade that the convoy said spans eight miles.

The People's Convoy, inspired by Canada's Freedom Convoy protest, raised more than $855,000 in monetary donations as of Friday, according to the protest's website - nearly double the amount it reported Thursday.

Although the California-based People's Convoy will not make it to D.C. in time for Biden's annual State of the Union address on Tuesday, an eight-vehicle caravan - featuring one semi, four pick-up trucks, two sedans and an SUV - traveling from Pennsylvania will.

The People's Convoy was met Friday morning by New Mexico residents who stood on overpasses holding signs and waving American flags.

He continued by praying for the convoy and issuing a blessing before the drivers hit the road.The People's Convoy has received an outpour of support along its route, according to Kris Young, who is the admin for the group's Facebook page.

The convoy organizer also thanked Crazy Fred's Truck Stop and Rebel Oil, both in Kingman, Arizona, for donating 25,000 gallons of fuel to the convoy.

Multiple convoys launched this past week, forcing officials in D.C. to prepare for potential gridlock in the Metropolitan area and on the Beltway, a 64-mile roadway through Virginia and Maryland that circles D.C.'The trucker convoys are kind of the latest in what I would say has been happening for over two years, where large groups of people from across the political spectrum, from a variety of different groups - ordinary voters, but also some organized extremists - converge around certain events,' Miller-Idriss said.
 

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