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. Vendors along the route have also donated gas, food and other essentials to the cavalcade.
