Unsurprising:\u00a0<\/strong>Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley lost<\/a> to Donald Trump in her home state’s primary on Saturday, winning 39.5 percent of the vote to Trump’s 59.8 percent.<\/p>\n

Haley has said she will not be dropping out<\/a> of the presidential race “until the last person votes” with her campaign announcing more ad spends ahead of Super Tuesday. Meanwhile, her Koch-affiliated funders at Americans for Prosperity Action have decided<\/a> to pull support, instead choosing to focus on more winnable House and Senate races. (Disclosure: Reason Foundation, the nonprofit which publishes this website, has also received Koch funding.)<\/p>\n

Trump posted<\/a> on his social media platform, Truth Social, that billionaire Charles Koch “and his group got played for suckers right from the beginning!” and called<\/a> Haley “braindead.”<\/p>\n

“I said earlier this week that no matter what happens in South Carolina, I would continue to run for president. I’m a woman of my word,” Haley said<\/a> in a speech on Saturday. “I’m not giving up this fight when a majority of Americans disapprove of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden.”<\/p>\n

Haley is right that both candidates’ disapproval ratings are stunningly high, and that third-party candidates such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are somewhat unprecedentedly gaining traction<\/a>. But that doesn’t mean that staying in the race will do much of anything.<\/p>\n

Self-immolation outside the Israeli embassy:<\/strong> An active-duty U.S. airman named Aaron Bushnell has reportedly died<\/a> after setting himself on fire<\/a> outside of the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C., protesting the Israeli government’s invasion of Gaza.<\/p>\n

Bushnell filmed his protest and livestreamed it on Twitch. “I will no longer be complicit in genocide,” said Bushnell, prior to setting himself on fire. “I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” he said before dousing himself in a liquid, lighting himself on fire, and shouting “Free Palestine!”<\/p>\n

This is the second self-immolation in front of an Israeli embassy that’s happened in response to the current conflict in Gaza. The first protest took place in Atlanta late last year, and it resulted in severe injuries<\/a> but not death of the protester.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile in Gaza…\u00a0<\/strong>The Israel Defense Forces have reportedly presented plans for removing civilians from active combat zones in Gaza, which “reinforces Israel’s intention to send troops into Rafah,” per<\/a>\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>. Rafah, which is on the border with Egypt, is where hundreds of thousands of Gazans have taken refuge. The Israeli military’s intentions have drawn criticism from the United States. Very little information has emerged to the general public about what is in the plan.<\/p>\n