Meet the Miami woman who won Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hamilton’ raffle

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July 11, 2016 7:35 PM


Meet the Miami woman who won Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hamilton’ raffle
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The Democratic presidential candidate raffled 2 tickets to ‘Hamilton’

They’re for a special Tuesday performance to raise funds for Clinton’s campaign

A Miami college professor won them
Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of “Hamilton” perform at the Tony Awards in New York last month. EVAN AGOSTINI INVISION VIA AP

By Patricia Mazzei



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For one lucky Hillary Clinton fan from Miami, there’s nothing like summer in the city — New York City, that is, with a pair of impossible-to-score tickets to the Broadway musical “Hamilton.”

Barbara Garcia won the Clinton campaign’s raffle to watch the Tony Award-winning show as the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate’s guest Tuesday.

Garcia was having dinner at Outback Steakhouse on West Flagler Street and 82nd Avenue Sunday when the campaign called her to tell her she’d won. She’s the raffle’s only winner — and a Cuban-American woman from the nation’s largest swing state, no less.

“I think I kind of screamed,” said Garcia, an anatomy and physiology professor at Doral’s West Coast Nursing University. “I’m a huge supporter of Hillary, and I’m blown away.”

She only entered the online raffle — for two tickets, airfare and hotel — after a friend entered first and told her about it. That friend will be Garcia’s guest at the show.



“I know that she’s going to be there, and so I really hope I get the opportunity to meet her,” Garcia said. “I would say to her, ‘I’ve been with you for a long time. I was a huge supporter in 2008.’ I was a little disappointed that she didn’t win in 2008, but I always said, ‘We’re going to get it done in 2016.’”


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“I have never been to a Broadway show — only the ones that come to Miami, to the Arsht Center, but never to an actual Broadway show,” she added. “I can’t wait.”..........

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