"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted Donald Trump was 'simply joking' about 'cancelling the election' during her briefing in DC on Thursday. "It was a closed-door interview. Obviously there was not audio or video. The president was was simply joking. He was saying we're doing such a great job We're doing everything the American people thought maybe we should just keep rolling but he was speaking facetiously," she said. In a follow-up, another reporter asked: "Americans for generations have fought and died for democracy, for this democracy. Are you saying that the President finds the idea of cancelling elections funny?" Leavitt replied: "only someone like you would take that so seriously and pose it at a question in that way.""