Michelle Tidball: Meet Kanye West’s proposed presidential running mate and 'biblical life coach'
Kanye West doesn't seem like he is joking about running for president this year because, in a recent interview, he said that he had chosen his running mate – a preacher that no one has ever heard of before. In a complete Forbes profile, the 'Stronger' singer and acclaimed rapper revealed that he had chosen Michelle Tidball, an unknown preacher from Wyoming, as his running mate. The choice created quite a buzz on social media as online investigators got to work trying to find as much information about the said preacher as possible. But most of them came up empty-handed as they could not get their hands on as much as a picture of the Tidball.
So here is all the information we have so far about Tidball: She lives in Cody, Wyoming, a town where West spent a considerable amount of time since 2018. He also owns a ranch there and Tidball reportedly shares his interest in religion. Tidball is 57 years old and runs her own online bible study program in the town.
She runs a website called 'Yarash', where she describes herself as a "biblical life coach", and where she holds weekly teleconferences and posts biblical teachings to listen to. Under her bio page on the website – which also has the only known picture of her - Tidball claimed that she holds various degrees in mental health and criminal justice. In the past, she worked as a mental health therapist for ten years before shifting into life coaching. "I pursue God! As long as I can remember including a time when I was six months old and my mother awoke to find that I was slipping away into a crib death. In a hospital tent God first visited me and spoke life which I can still recall today. Being raised in the church I loved God, encountered Him, but wanted to know more. At seventeen I made the decision to follow Him all the days of my life! The first thing God did was teach me about His Sabbath, Feasts, and Word! I began walking in His cycles and began to know and understand," she wrote under her bio.
She added: "I have been involved in almost all aspects of ministry including speaking, pastoring, prayer, teaching, and the most time spent in bringing deliverance to those who are in bondage. My heart has always been to walk in maturity and to bring others into maturity to be about His business and see the completion of things He mandated before the foundations of the world."
According to Forbes, she previously served as an executive director of Bright Futures Mentoring Program, a nonprofit that helped mentor students in Cody. On one of her bible teleconferences, she has said previously that she doesn’t “watch news.” It is unclear if Kanye has formally asked her to be his running mate or if she has accepted the same.
In addition, West said in the interview that his 2020 election campaign slogan would be “YES!” “Well, my second album is called Late Registration. I got a rap … The other thing is, my campaign is Kanye West YES, not YEP, not YEAH. YES. YES. YES... When I’m president, let’s also have some fun. Let’s get past all the racism conversation, let’s empower people with 40 acres and a mule, let’s give some land, that’s the plan," West said.