--- title: House of Cards: Australians for Frank Underwood Video description: House of Cards weighed in on Australia's budget night with this Frank Underwood commercial designed to look like a political ad. canonical: https://time.com/4773861/house-of-cards-frank-underwood-australia/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-10T15:13:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:30.111Z og:title: Frank Underwood Wants to Run Australia Now og:description: This House of Cards political campaign got Austrlians talking last night og:url: https://time.com/4773861/house-of-cards-frank-underwood-australia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1dfcc9d2fbc8d35f/6988993af887dc67f3e965f1/fictional-presidents-17.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3600 og:image:height: 2025 og:image:alt: 4 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Frank Underwood Wants to Run Australia Now twitter:description: This House of Cards political campaign got Austrlians talking last night twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1dfcc9d2fbc8d35f/6988993af887dc67f3e965f1/fictional-presidents-17.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _House of Cards_' Frank Underwood Wants to Run Australia Now > Sponsored content. 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Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood in House of Cards, 2014.David Giesbrecht—Netflix by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman May 10, 2017 3:13 PM UTC There’s always a chance that [Frank Underwood](http://time.com/4236031/house-of-cards-michael-kelly-interview-donald-trump-frank-underwood/) **—** [Kevin Spacey’s](http://time.com/4745210/kevin-spacey-2017-tony-awards/) devious fictional character from [_House of Cards_](http://time.com/4245320/house-of-cards-season-4-twist-spoilers/) **—** could be coming to a debate near you. When many eyes were fixed on the news during the announcement of the Australian budget Tuesday night, the Netflix political drama ran a 30-second video created to look like a political ad titled “Australians for Underwood,” urging viewers to support a new leader. As the farmer in the commercial puts it, “Frankly, it’s time we had some real leadership. Like they do in the U.S.” The spot waits until the end to reveal that the leader “who will not yield” is in fact Spacey’s scheming POTUS character. The move was not without precedent. The show also ran ads that tacked onto news-driving political events during 2015’s [Republican Debate](http://time.com/4150926/republican-debate-house-of-cards/) and [Brexit in 2016](http://time.com/4247586/house-of-cards-frank-underwood/). Watch below. The _House of Cards_ video had garnered 342,001 views as of Wednesday morning, and the ad campaign included a print ad and a Facebook page. 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