Deletion of Pete Stauber

Comment: to United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota, 2018#District 8. Keeps revision history if he wins, and most politicians who are notable only by being a candidate redirect to the election they're notable for. He may win given how 'red' the district is, but  prevents that from keeping an article
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:CRYSTAL)

Comment: The Keep part is on account of  and the Weak part is on account of 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:TOOSOON)

Comment: has received a lot of news coverage as well as multiple public mentions by the President. Clearly meets 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: I made some minor improvements, and taken as a whole, think there's just enough to meet 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: As I continue to expand and source this article,  I have become persuaded that his role in taking the smallest college ever to win a national championship in ice hockey - and coverage of his sporting career in general (some coverage national in U.S. and Canada - combine with   coverage of other aspects of his life and political career to make this one keep
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:SIGCOV)

Comment: While I'm not going to cast a decision either way on the subject, I will leave the following note. If he was assessed on just his ice hockey career it would be one of the easiest deletes that I've seen in a while, he never did anything of significance based on the criteria established by . Now as far as where he stands as a politician or with the , I'll leave that for the rest of you to decide
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NHOCKEY||WP:GNG)

Comment: doesn't meet , hockey notability guidelines, or . If he wins in November, no problem with recreating the article
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL||WP:GNG)

Comment: subject meets  
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: has enough coverage in independent reliable sources to meet , which trumps the specialized notability guidelines
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: Candidates for Congress do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates — he'll certainly qualify for an article in November if he wins the seat, but being a candidate is not enough in and of itself to already get him into Wikipedia today. But he doesn't have any strong claim of preexisting notability for other reasons, either: hockey players get articles if they ''play'' in the NHL, not if they sign with an NHL organization but then never actually get called up from the farm team, and county commissioners do not get an automatic free pass over  #2 just for existing: it's a role where the notability test is the depth of |reliable sourcing that can or cannot be shown to make them ''special'', not a role where every county commissioner gets guaranteed inclusion rights. So no prejudice against recreation in November if he wins, but nothing here is already enough today
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL||WP:RS)