Despite reservations about whether they would ever endorse Donald Trump, Pennsylvania Republicans are sticking with him as the keynote speaker for their prominent New York City fundraiser on Friday — even if liberal activists are outraged by the controversial presidential hopeful.

Pennsylvania GOP Chairman Rob Gleason pointed out that party donors are interested in hearing from the candidate, who is currently doing well in the polls, at their Dec. 11, $1,000-a-head Commonwealth Club luncheon. However, he went on to say that the invitation does not mean an endorsement even if it may be a tipping point for the 300-plus guests who are expected to attend the Plaza Hotel event, according to a Philly.com report.

This is not the case for Chester County’s Val DiGiorgio, as the chairman of the Chester County Republican Party has already thrown his support behind Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. DiGiorgio has previously stated that the majority of support for Trump comes from the anti-establishment, anti-Washington voters and that the only way he can see Trump winning in Pennsylvania is in an election with a large number of candidates where just 25 to 30 percent of votes would be enough for victory.

“As the field winnows down and you get down to one anti-establishment candidate and one what I’ll call a more conventional candidate, and as people tend to get more serious about who’s going to be president, I think that Trump will not carry Pennsylvania,” DiGiorgio said.

Allegheny County GOP Chairman Jim Roddey also stated that he would not be supporting Trump in the primary.

“I don’t think he’s qualified,” said Roddey. “I think people, in the final analysis, will realize he doesn’t have the skills, the background and the experience he needs to be president.”

Despite that, Roddey pointed out that Trump is “colorful and a lot of people will come just to hear him talk, even if they anticipate he might say something crazy.”

That “something crazy” is why liberal activists want Trump jettisoned from the official GOP event.

“Mr. Trump’s recent statement that the United States should enact a full travel ban on Muslims is unequivocally fascist,” Democratic Congressional challenger Daniel Muroff said in another Philly.com report on the fundraiser. “The Pennsylvania GOP should rescind Trump’s invitation and should instead work to combat the hate that Trump has flamed.”

Activist group Keystone Progress agrees; “If the Pennsylvania Republican Party does not disinvite Trump, they are sending a message to all Pennsylvanians that they agree with Trump’s religious bigotry,” Executive Director Michael Morrill said in the article.

Proceeds from the fundraising event will be used to help re-elect U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey as well as increase the number of Republicans in Pennsylvania’s U.S. House delegation and state Legislature.

Read more about the event and the opinions surrounding it on Philly.com here and here.