Sen. Thom Tillis is one of the Republican incumbents being targeted over the federal government’s Covid-19 response by his Democratic challenger. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Democrats are focusing on “Washington,” not Trump, to slam the US Covid-19 response.

Cal Cunningham, the Democratic candidate in North Carolina’s US Senate race, pointed out that the US is capable of coming together for the national good — just not, apparently, on Covid-19.

“If it had been a terrorist attack, there would have been an address to the nation, probably to a joint session of Congress. There would not have been a hesitation to invoke things like the Defense Production Act,” Cunningham, a military veteran, told me in a phone interview. “There would have been clear communication from the top to every corner of America about how we fight that enemy. Here, we were