Republican Texas Sen. Cruz rolls up to the Capitol with the ‘People’s Convoy’ truckers

Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz arrived at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday in a vehicle leading the honking trucker convoy that, since last weekend, has been circling Washington, D.C., in protest of COVID-19 restrictions.

Cruz rode with “People’s Convoy” co-organizer Mike Landis, who drove a truck from western Maryland, before exiting the vehicle and holding a press conference with the truckers.

The truckers met Tuesday with Cruz and fellow GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, of Wisconsin, and Republican members of the House Transportation Committee.

Organizers of the convoy – patterned after an earlier one in Canada – says the caravan of long-haul trucks, SUVs, minivans and other vehicles, camped about 60 miles northwest of the nation’s capital, will not leave the city until more lawmakers sit with them and their demands are met…. (Excerpt from Just the News)