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Voters also indicated that they would support Donald Trump over both Cruz and Kasich in a head-to-head matchup. | Getty Poll: 6-in-10 Republicans say no majority of delegates needed for nomination

Republican voters appear to agree with Donald Trump: Whoever has the most delegates should win the GOP nomination — never mind if he racks up a majority.

Sixty-three percent of Republican voters said the candidate with the most delegates should win the party's nomination, even if he does not get an outright majority before the Republican National Convention in July, according to a new Bloomberg Politics poll out Wednesday. Just 33 percent said the delegates should decide who is the nominee with no restriction on who they could select.

"While I believe I will clinch before Cleveland and get more than 1237 delegates, it is unfair in that there have been so many in the race!" Trump tweeted shortly after the poll's release.

Continuing a long-running streak, Trump still tops the Republican field among voters nationwide, earning the support of 40 percent of the 366 people who said they are likely to vote in their state's Republican primary or caucus or who have already done so, followed by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz with 31 percent and Ohio Gov. John Kasich with 25 percent, with 5 percent not sure. Kasich's share of support is up seven points from his Real Clear Politics average nationally over the last week.

Voters also indicated that they would support Trump over both Cruz and Kasich in a head-to-head matchup, with Trump leading Cruz 48 percent to 44 percent and ahead of Kasich 51 percent to 43 percent.

Of the 149 people who indicated that they have voted against Trump or plan to do so, 34 percent said their vote is more to stop the current front-runner, compared with 57 percent who said it was to support either Cruz or Kasich, while 8 percent were not sure.

Selzer & Co. conducted the poll of 1,000 U.S. adults from March 19-22 via landlines and cellphones. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

