Maeve McDermott

USATODAY

Donald Trump and Frank Underwood share quite a few character traits -- a distaste for the media, a tendency towards outrage, and a totally ruthless desire for power.

So if the House of Cards president faced off against in a real-life election against Trump, how would he pull off a win? According to House of Cards' stars, Trump wouldn't make it out of the campaign alive.

"I think he would just kill him!" Constance Zimmer joked, speaking at a benefit for the Creative Coalition in D.C. Friday night. "I think he'd just off him. That's clean. He'd just finish him."

"I have a feeling he'd have to get violent," agreed Neve Campbell, who joined HoC last season to play Claire's campaign adviser. "I think he'd have to cut it off at the pass."

According to Zimmer, who played journalist Janine Skorsky on the show, politicians were quick to hint at the similarities between HoC's twisted version of Washington and the real thing. "The first time we came [to Washington] for the first season of the show, we had politicians coming up to us and saying, 'Oh, we're much dirtier that that.' And we were like, 'What? What are you talking about?!"

"And I [asked], 'Really, are you guys killing people, what's happening?' And they're like, 'We're not gonna tell you, but we'll just let you know, it's much dirtier."

Kevin Spacey thinks the 2016 elections are crazier than 'House of Cards'

Kevin Spacey also pointed out the "parallel election happening on the show" in comments last month. "Sometimes I leave the set and I go to my hotel room and I wonder whether we have gone too far... Is there something we have done that feels unreal and unbelievable and crazy?," he said, according to Buzzfeed.

"And then I turn on the television and I watch the news, and I think that we haven’t gone far enough.”

So, which elements of this election will inevitably make it into HoC's next season? Stay tuned.