Deletion of Jason Crow (American Politician)

Comment: I've got a dog in this fight, and don't want to pretend otherwise. I live in the district and am impacted by this race and have been volunteering for one of Jason's opponents -- Levi Tillemann. That said, I don't think it is helpful to the community to delete a page on a frontrunner for a congressional race that was one of the most expensive in the country in 2016. He has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject from both local and national sources. People are trying to learn about the guy. He also definitely seems to pass the bar on being a major local political figures who have received significant press coverage . to Right now, there's no neutral and trusted broker for information on him. Clearly, I agree that merely being a candidate doesn't guarantee notability, but I think that were he NOT a candidate and had a similar level of coverage in reliable sources, we wouldn't be hesitating to post this. Fully understand that my opinion here will be discounted because of my connection, but I sincerely don't see how deleting the page improves the community
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIANS)

Comment: Unexceptional military, professional and political career. A search turned up a couple of everyday political campaign reports (i.e. try to start an argument to get your name in the papers); but no truly independent in-depth coverage. Fails  including 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NBIO||WP:NPOL)

Comment: does not meet  criteria.  Perhaps |too soon
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN||WP:TOOSOON)

Comment: Unelected candidates for office do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates — if you cannot take the candidacy completely out of the equation and ''still'' have a keepable article about somebody who already met a notability standard for some other reason, then he has to ''win'' the election, not just run in it, to get an article on here for his political activities per se. About half the footnotes here are |primary sources (his own campaign website, his own staff profile on the website of his own employer, YouTube videos, FEC directories, etc.) that cannot assist notability at all, and even the ones that are to proper |reliable sources are almost entirely local and : the media are ''expected'' to grant coverage to local political races happening in their own coverage area, which means that ''every'' candidate in ''any'' election ''always'' gets some media attention. Accordingly, such coverage does not get the candidate over  as a Christine O'Donnell-style special case unless and until it ''explodes'' into something ''far'' out of proportion to what every candidate could always show. So this article simply isn't demonstrating what's actually required
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:PRIMARYSOURCES||WP:RS||WP:ROUTINE||WP:GNG)