Scalise wins Round 1. What's next?

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise has won the GOP’s nod to become the next speaker, completing a decade-long climb up the ranks of Republican leadership.

But it remains unclear whether he can muster the votes needed to win the speakership on the floor, given the Republicans' tiny margin of control and the deep rifts in the GOP conference.

The genial Louisianan defeated Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) in a secret-ballot vote on Wednesday, winning 113 to 99, according to multiple people briefed on the results.

The GOP’s half-day election, though, does little to answer the question on the mind of virtually every Republican in the room: how to unite a highly fractured party — and quickly.