Live updates: Tom Emmer drops out of House speaker race

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who had to drop his bid for speaker nearly two weeks ago, said, “If we gotta keep working it, we will, someone will, and we gotta keep working until we get there.”

Pressed for his reaction to the GOP's latest Speaker designee Tom Emmer dropping out, Scalise said, “As the whip, you look at the votes, and he met with a lot of folks who said they couldn’t vote for him on the floor and realized that 217 weren’t there, cause ultimately that’s what it takes to get elected on the floor.”