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Q: ABC is severing its partnership with the New Hampshire Union Leader for the Feb. 6 Republican primary debate, and Donald Trump Donald TrumpBill Clinton: Comey 'cost' my wife the election The last stand: Why I will vote for John Kasich in today's Electoral College Poll finds little support for revolt in Electoral College MORE says he made the network do it. 
  
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 “I am pleased to announce that I had the Union Leader removed from the upcoming debate,” Trump said on Sunday in a statement to The Hill. 
  
 The Republican primary front-runner said the newspaper’s recent criticism of his candidacy constituted a conflict of interest. 
  
 The newspaper issued a front-page editorial last month entitled “Trump campaign insults NH voters’ intelligence.” 
  
 “This is really unfair and a conflict for all the other candidates,” Trump said in his statement. “I said it should not be allowed and ABC agreed.” 
  
 “To top it off, the paper has lost all credibility under publisher Joe McQuaid, with its circulation dropping to record lows,” he added. “They are not worthy of representing the great people of New Hampshire.” 
  
 Trump also bristled at the paper’s endorsement of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) for president. 
  
 “If their highly unethical behavior, including continually begging me for ads, isn’t questionable enough, they have endorsed a candidate who can’t win,” he said. 
  
 Julie Townsend, a spokeswoman for ABC, confirmed the network has parted ways with the Union Leader. 
  
  
  
 She told The Hill that the newspaper played a “minor role” in the debate and the decision “doesn’t have any impact at all on the editorial content of the debate itself.” 
  
 The Union Leader did not immediately return a request for comment. ||||| Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said "football has become soft," while speaking at a campaign rally in Iowa on Saturday, Jan. 10. (Reuters) 
  
 When Donald Trump looks at America, he sees a country that has gone soft, but that’s not all. He also sees pro football, a sport that is now the national pastime, going soft, too. 
  
 In a rally attended by about 2,000 people Sunday in Reno, Nev., he hit that theme and others and placed a lot of blame on the game’s referees, saying they just throw to flags to impress their wives, who are watching at home. While he admitted that he still loves New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, the game now is just unwatchable for him. 
  
 Referees are destroying the enjoyment of NFL games. Slowing down the fun. Big shots. Jets game is ridiculous! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2013 
  
 After talking about Iraq, he segued onto the topic of the NFL, with playoff games on his mind. 
  
 “It’s a Sunday, who the hell wants to watch these crummy games? I just want to watch the end. By the way — okay, let me go there for a second. Let me end that story. So we gave them Iraq, we’re stupid. We’re stupid. I’ll change things. Believe me, I’ll change things. And again, we’re going to be so respected. I don’t want to use the word ‘feared.’ What I just said about a game — so I’m watching a game yesterday. What used to be considered a great tackle, a violent head-on [tackle], a violent — if that was done by Dick Butkus, they’d say he’s the greatest player. If that were done by Lawrence Taylor — it was done by Lawrence Taylor and Dick Butkus and Ray Nitschke, right? Ray Nitschke — you used to see these tackles and it was incredible to watch, right? 
  
 “Now they tackle. ‘Oh, head-on-head collision, 15 yards.’ The whole game is all screwed up. You say, ‘Wow, what a tackle.’ Bing. Flag. Football has become soft. Football has become soft. Now, I’ll be criticized for that. They’ll say, ‘Oh, isn’t that terrible.’ But football has become soft like our country has become soft. [Applause] It’s true. It’s true. The outcome of games has been changed by what used to be phenomenal, phenomenal stuff. Now these are rough guys, these are rough guys. These guys — what they’re doing is incredible, but I looked at it and I watched yesterday in particular. So many flags, right? So many flags. And I could imagine a guy like Lawrence Taylor and Dick Butkus, who was really rough, and some of these guys sitting there watching. ‘Wow, what a beautiful tackle.’ ‘Fifteen yards! That’s — the game is over.’ You can’t kick a field goal any more.” 
  
 He wasn’t finished. 
  
 “It’s become weak and you know what? It’s going to affect the NFL. I don’t even watch it as much anymore. It’s going to affect the NFL. I don’t watch it. The referees, they want to all throw flags so their wives see them at home. ‘Oh, there’s my husband.’ [Laughter] It’s true. ‘He just broke up — he just gave a 15-yard penalty on one of the most beautiful tackles made this year.’ Right? 
  
 “It’s boring — although I love Tom Brady. I gotta tell you. I do love Tom. He’s a great guy. But it’s different. But it’s become soft and our country has become soft.” 
  
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 ABC also moderated the last Democratic debate held in New Hampshire. | Getty ABC severs debate partnership with Union Leader 
  
 ABC is cutting off their partnership with the New Hampshire Union Leader for the Republican primary debate on Feb. 6, an ABC spokesperson has confirmed. 
  
 The paper was set to have a co-branding relationship for the debate, though it was going to be a comparatively minor role, without any representative on stage asking questions on behalf of the newspaper. In a series of tweets on Sunday, Trump took credit for ABC's move, saying he asked for ABC to remove the paper from the debate. 
  
 An ABC spokesperson declined to comment on his claims, but ever since the paper’s participation in the December Democratic debate, the relationship with ABC had become strained, at best, a source at ABC with knowledge of the situation said. Adding to the strained relationship, the source said, was the paper’s singling out of one particular candidate, Donald Trump, with front page editorials. 
  
 WMUR, the ABC affiliate which the Democratic National Committee had kicked out of participating in the December debate over a union dispute, will see anchor Josh McElveen participating in some form with David Muir and Martha Raddatz moderating. 
  
 Independent Journal Review, a popular viral news website known for creating unique videos with presidential candidates, is also still participating in the debate as well in as of yet undefined role. 
  
 In a statement, Union Leader publisher Joseph McQuaid said ABC was bowing to external forces. 
  
 "We will get over being "severed." We are amused by ABC apparently just discovering that we write editorials and endorse candidates. We have been doing both for decades and it hasn't been an issue for ABC or anyone else," McQuaid wrote. "Between bowing to the DNC and Trump, ABC is more concerned about appeasing the parties and candidates than informing voters. The Union Leader will continue to serve Granite Staters by being a reliable source of information about where candidates stand. " 
  
 This post has been updated with McQuaid's response. |||||
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The New Hampshire Union Leader has been dropped as ABC's co-sponsor for a GOP debate next month—or, according to Donald Trump, they were "kicked out of the ABC News debate like a dog." New Hampshire's biggest newspaper has been fiercely critical of Trump and he took full credit for the change, saying its role in the debate is "unfair and a conflict for all the other candidates," the Hill reports. In a statement, Union Leader publisher Joseph McQuaid—who has run front-page anti-Trump editorials—slammed the "spineless" network. "We are amused by ABC News apparently just discovering that we endorse candidates and write editorials," he said. "We have been doing both for many years and it has never been a problem with ABC or other debate sponsors." But while Trump, who blasted the paper and McQuaid in a series of tweets Sunday, considers the move something to boast about, sources tell Politico that ABC was considering dropping the Union Leader from its minor role in the debate anyway because of disagreements that followed the Democratic debate in New Hampshire last month. The Washington Post reports that Trump also slammed the NFL yesterday, telling a rally in Reno that while he still loves Tom Brady, he finds football almost unwatchable now because it has "become soft like our country has become soft." "It's become weak and you know what? It’s going to affect the NFL," he said. "The referees, they want to all throw flags so their wives see them at home. 'Oh, there’s my husband.'"