“I’m kind of saying to myself, you know, ‘is there another shoe that’s going to drop here?’ Because if you look at the way that the present mayor got into office, it was handed off to him by the previous administration, and quite obviously there were deals cut. And there probably are deals cut right now,” McCarthy said in a reference to Emanuel leaving the White House and Bill Daley, the brother of former Mayor Richard M. Daley, becoming Obama’s next chief of staff. “I try not to worry about things that I really can’t control. … I’m very confident that we’ve got a good campaign. We’ve got a good message. And I’m very confident in my ability to lead.”