Michigan Republican Party Chair Kristina Karamo argues a special meeting organized Saturday to oust her will violate party bylaws and she is prepared to fight. The party activists moving against her, Karamo told MLive on Friday, are part of an elitist cabal working to undermine the work of patriots like herself. "Why are they only taking these dishonest, aggressive tactics towards other Republicans?" Karamo said. "Their job as the uniparty, in my opinion, is to prevent the Republican Party from being successful by sowing chaos and dissent and inefficiency ... I refuse to believe these are just some good-hearted, confused people because they resort to lying and deception." In a special meeting scheduled for Saturday afternoon, prominent Karamo critics within her party believe they have enough votes to remove her from the role, less than a year after she took the reins of the fractured GOP. Oakland County Republican Warren Carpenter, an organizer of the effort to remove Karamo, told MLive this week he is "as confident if not more confident" after news emerged the party's state committee itself had been fined after Karamo waded into a local party dispute in Hillsdale County and ignored a judge's order. Karamo's critics in the state committee said the body hasn't been consulted on any of the lawsuits the state party has engaged in. Karamo has also claimed only the chair of the party can set meeting agendas and refused to hold a vote on whether she should remain chair, calling it "unlawful." That meeting is "illegal" and the committee members that show won't be conducting the business of the party, she has claimed. More: Chorus grows to remove Karamo as Michigan GOP chair She also asserts that a majority of the state committee is still behind her. Eight of 13 congressional district Republican party chairs recently called on her to step down. In early December, most of the party's state committee skipped a virtual meeting Karamo convened in order to attend one organized by a group of discontented party leaders. On the WJBK program Let It Rip Thursday night, she vowed "I will never resign." Carpenter, a former Karamo supporter, said he's anticipated this will end up being a legal fight. "I've been working on the brief for the last two months knowing that this was always going to end this way," Carpenter said. "The second the vote has transpired, we will have five attorneys on site, our legal team will be there and (Republican National Committee observers) and we will file an injunction, a (temporary restraining order) at that moment." Asked to explain why Carpenter, a major Karamo donor in 2022, became her loudest critic, Karamo called him a "conniver" and a "habitual liar" seeking to sabotage the party. "Benedict Arnold, Brutus, Judas. The story is a long story throughout history of these individuals who get close, so they can plot and scheme on a person, and when you won't give in to what they want, they attack, and that's what we're witnessing," she said. Carpenter did not immediately respond to Karamo's comments on Friday. There has been long-simmering dissatisfaction with Karamo's leadership as the party limps toward a crucial presidential election year in a highly-competitive state with meager funds and perpetual infighting. The Michigan Republican Party is in dire financial straits amid a failure to raise money and unpaid debt. They've also sued a trust that owns the party's longtime Lansing headquarters, which Karamo has declined to use, arguing they should be able to sell the building to pay the party's debts. A lawyer representing the trust has argued in court filings the lawsuit is frivolous and should be summarily dismissed. Carpenter sponsored a report alleging the party broke campaign finance laws under Karamo and was moving swiftly toward bankruptcy. Karamo denied those allegations and said donors are starting to see the party under her leadership is a worthwhile investment. "I was elected to stick by my principles, those who profited from the duplicitous system of backstabbing politicians, they want me out," Karamo argued. "Those who want honest politicians, honest people in politics, they are seeing finally that I am the person I say I am." Grading her job performance as the state party's leader on an A to F scale, Karamo gave herself a B+. Her biggest regret: "There are people that I trusted that it shouldn't have." Related: Michigan's GOP is 'a doggone mess': inside a party torn by infighting and paranoia When asked, after all the intraparty conflict, if there is still a path to unify Michigan Republican ahead of the election season, Karamo responded, "I wasn't elected to make friends, I was elected to save our country. And the thing about it is I'm focused on the task and not the people."