“I think it’s a benefit to anyone in this race who has not been tied to the sort of s--- that has been going on. I’m tied because my name is Daley, and I’ve lived in this city forever and therefore everyone thinks anything bad that happened in this city, a Daley must have done it,” Daley said of the federal probe’s impact on the race. “I don’t pretend that whatever negatives people have about Rich or my dad or the political system, that those aren’t real. But I don’t get named for giving back $100,000 from Ed Burke or $100,000 from Danny Solis and some company. Everyone is going to have to defend their own records.”