In 2012, the state elected a <answer>Republican</answer> Governor (Pat McCrory) and Lieutenant Governor (Dan Forest) for the first time in more than two decades, while also giving the <answer>Republican</answer>s veto-proof majorities in both the State House of Representatives and the State Senate. Several U.S. House of Representatives seats also flipped control, with the <answer>Republican</answer>s holding nine seats to the Democrats' four. In the 2014 mid-term elections, <answer>Republican</answer> David Rouzer won the state's Seventh Congressional District seat, increasing the congressional delegation party split to 10-3 in favor of the GOP.
What political party does Pat McCrory belong to?
Republican