I don't remember which one of the GOPe said it, I want to say McConnell or Haley Barbour-I googled but can't find it-but I distinctly remember one of the GOPe big shots during the last national congressional primaries, saying of disaffected conservative voters “Where else are they going to go?” He said it openly and publicly.
Now that we have elsewhere to go, they are trying to throw a monkey wrench into the workings of democracy and disenfranchise the voters.