McCain talks about becoming nominee

John McCain reveled tonight in a crucial victory in what he noted was a "all Republican" Florida primary, which he described as a major step to the party's nomination.

"Our victory might not have reached landslide proportions, but it is sweet nonetheless," he told supporters in Miami. "We have a ways to go, but we're getting close."

The Arizona senator vowed to go on to Super Tuesday and win next week.

"I intend to win it, and be the nominee of our party," he said. "And I intend to do that by making it clear what I stand for. I stand for the principles and policies that first attracted me to the Republican Party...When I left the Navy and entered public life, I enlisted as a foot soldier in the political revolution he began. And I am as proud to be a Reagan conservative today, as I was then. I trust in the courage, good sense, resourcefulness and decency of the American people, who deserve a government that trusts in their qualities as well, and doesn't abrogate to its elf the responsibilities to do for the people what the people can and want to do for themselves."