CLEVELAND — Republican National Convention leaders secured the support needed to thwart an anti-Trump rebellion in advance of a floor fight, not during an unexplained break that delayed the process, according to the presiding chair of the convention.

“There was a question backstage about, more than anything, the cleanliness of it all,” Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., who held the gavel when a faction of delegates who oppose Donald Trump were denied a last-ditch attempt to oust Donald Trump from his place as presumptive GOP nominee for president. “Let’s go back and let’s do the no vote, repeat the vote, and let’s do that so that everybody can be heard.”