NEWS: Rep. Bergman is 2nd candidate to be dropped from the GOP speaker candidate pool after getting the least votes on the the 2nd ballot, im told With him and Sessions out, that frees up about 2 dozen votes to go elsewhere edit SECOND BALLOT TALLY Emmer- 90 Johnson- 37 Donalds- 33 Hern- 31 Scott- 14 Bergman- 7 Other- 3 Present- 2 EMMER gained 12 from first ballot. JOHNSON still no 2. And 5 choose no one.