BUFFALO, N.Y. -- While Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, was inside Buffalo's Delaware North Building on Thursday, protesters outside chanted, "No Collins. No Conway. No Trump." The consistent calls may have, in part, been to keep warm.

"What you're seeing is the heartiest people in this very cold weather coming out." said Louisa Fletcher-Pacheco of the Working Families Party WNY Chapter.

Despite that cold, several dozen demonstrators gathered to protest Conway, her boss, and Rep. Chris Collins, R-New York, who co-chaired a fundraiser Thursday for the Trump Transition Team.

"We're here. We will fight. We are part of our community. We are part of the fabric of every single piece of this community and we want justice. We want peace. We want love," Fletcher-Pacheco said.

Inside it was warmer. A $5,000 ticket will get you that. It also got roughly 150 people the chance to hear Trump's former campaign manager talk about the campaign, how the pollsters were wrong, and what she called the bias of the mainstream media. They came away impressed.

"What we saw today is a preview of what we'll see going forward. I'm sure she will be someone that's no stranger to television and going out giving speeches on the president's behalf," Erie County GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy said.

He said they may have raised as much as a million dollars to fund the transition effort, but it was also a chance for Western New York to reaffirm itself as a Trump stronghold and bring new supporters into the fold.

"This helped him and his administration understand that Buffalo, New York and political and governmental leaders here firmly, and business leaders, firmly support him as president of the United States," Langworthy said.

The chairman noted the president-elect didn't hold a fundraiser in Buffalo during the campaign.

Regardless, the price tag didn't sit well with some protesters.

"We're frustrated that all of this money is being funneled outside of Buffalo and these people are literally funding somebody who's xenophobic, racist, misogynistic," Cai Blue said.

They said they hope event-goers heard their message. Whether it reached Conway is unclear as she never appeared outside.