While Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are making headlines across the world, a third candidate has created a small hype during the Presidential Election campaign in the US.

In August, Evan McMullin, an anti-Trump Republican, launched his presidential bid as an independent, and is now neck-and-neck with Trump and Clinton in his home state of Utah.

He hopes he would win Utah and the race would be tight across the country. If no candidate reach over 50 percent of the Electoral College, the President will be elected by the House of Representatives.

McMullin hopes he would get enough backing from a Republican controlled house to be next president. A long shot, but not impossible.

Pic: Evan McMullin in Baghdad in 2008 when he was in the CIA. (Evan McMullin)