Who is Austin Scott, the Georgia Republican who lost the GOP speakership nomination?

Republican Rep. Austin Scott of Georgia, who entered the race for House speaker after House Majority Leader Steve Scalise dropped out, lost the GOP's nomination to Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio in a 124-81 vote Friday.

After the vote, Scott told CNN he was dropping out of the race and endorsing Jordan.

"We had the vote; Jim Jordan won the vote. The party should unite behind the person who wins the vote," he said.

Scott announced his intentions for the speakership in a Friday post on X, formerly known as Twitter: "I have filed to be Speaker of the House. We are in Washington to legislate, and I want to lead a House that functions in the best interest of the American people."

Scott, an ally of ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy, told CNN he decided to run because "we have to do the right thing the right way. That's something that we as a conference are not doing right now."

"When I woke up this morning, I had no intentions of doing this. It took me a long time to even get to my wife to tell her to call all our friends and be in prayer because we haven't done any preparation or any whipping or anything for this," he said Friday.

Scott said Rep. Frank Lucas was going nominate him in the GOP conference meeting.