Net Results

John McCain has declared victory, addressing supporters at 9:45 p.m. in Texas.

"I am very grateful for the broad support you have given our campaign," McCain said. "And I am very, very grateful and pleased to note that tonight, my friends, we have won enough delegates to claim with confidence, humility and a sense of great responsibility that I will be the Republican nominee for President of the United States."

"I want to thank all of you here -- all the Republicans, independents, and independent-thinking Democrats, in all parts of the country, who supported our campaign for the nomination, and have brought us across the finish line first, an accomplishment that once seemed to more than a few doubters unlikely."

McCain also said that his campaign was beginning its most important phrase: "to make a respectful, determined and convincing case to the American people that our campaign and my election as President, given the alternatives presented by our friends in the other party, are in the best interests of the country we love."