A third Indian-American is running for president of the US in 2024.

After former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, Hirsh Vardhan Singh is the third Indian-American to run for the Republican nomination for US president in 2024.

Singh, 38, said he had always been a Republican and that he was a "America First constitutional carry and pro-life conservative" who helped rebuild the right wing of New Jersey's Republican Party starting in 2017. He ran for the US Senate in 2020 but lost, and this is the fourth time the head of a defense and Aircraft Company has tried to get into public office.

Singh says that corruption in both big tech and big pharma is a major threat to Americans, and that there is also a full-scale attack on American family values, parenting rights, and free speech.

Singh joins a long list of Republican candidates for president, including Trump, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, Ramaswamy, Haley, Senator Tim Scott, and businessman and pastor Ryan Binkley.

A recent Morning Consult study found that 59% of voters support Trump, 16% support DeSantis, 8% support Ramaswamy, 6% support Pence, and 2% support Scott.

Singh was born in the United States to parents who came from India. In 2009, he got a bachelor's degree in engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Singh got into New Jersey politics in 2017 when he ran for Governor. He placed third in the race, getting only 9.8% of the vote. In 2003, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics gave him the Aviation Ambassador award.