member of congress. >> reporter: karamo wouldn't speak to cnn. >> we come to the table with almost no political experience. and we don't view that as a bad thing. >> reporter: but her deputy chief of staff, joel studebaker, and ken beyer, a district chairman, say karamo's critics have not given her a chance. >> how much have you raised this year? >> far less. it's been a challenge. >> how much? can you put a dollar -- >> i don't know the exact dollar amount. but it's -- i don't know that it's over a million. >> she's not a businessperson. we knew that when we elected her. >> but is that now starting to come back to bite you because the business of this is not working, it's failing? >> what she's doing is she's motivating a bunch of people within the community to get active inside their own neighborhood. >> reporter: beyer says the republican establishment set karamo up to fail by sending their donations to other gop state organizations. >> these folks are pulling the rug out from under kristina and then blaming her for falling. >> reporter: but karamo's critics say she's not making en

that the party had a net income of $71,000 between march and november of 2023 compared to how much karamoaid she hoped to raise. >> we will require 50 million dlrdz and i am confident that i will be able to raise it. >> reporter: and that is questionable spending decisions like taking out a $100,000 loan to push a man who is pushing qanon conspiracy theories, and so dire that some members have resigned fearing that the party is going to face imminent default on the line of credit, and such that in michigan, it could have broader implications in a state that trump won and flipped, and then biden won by narrow margins. >> when a state is short on the fund-raising, it has an impact on everybody, president, senator, mayor. >> reporter: she would not speak to cnn. >> you come to the table with no political experience and which don't view it as a bad thing. >> reporter: but her deputy chief of staff joel studebaker and ken buyer says that the critics have not given her a chance. how much have you raised this year? >> far less. it has been a challenge. >> reporter: do you know the amount? >> i d

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