Former U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte has continued her crusade against the Bay State saying fentanyl has a pipeline into New Hampshire from “Biden’s open border to Massachusetts.”

In launching her bid to be the Granite State’s next governor, the Republican former state attorney general warned her state was one election away from turning into its heavily liberal neighbor. On Thursday, she was more pointed in her critique.

“Fentanyl is being trafficked from Biden’s open border to Massachusetts and into New Hampshire,” she wrote on Twitter, before sharing almost a dozen news stories documenting the arrests of Massachusetts residents in New Hampshire on drug-related charges.

During an early week appearance on “Fox and Friends,” Ayotte said the deadly synthetic opioid is coming into her state through the cities of Lowell and Lawrence. Her comments were met with a sharp rebuke from officials in Lawrence and Bay State political pundits, one of whom Ayotte says “attacked me as racist for stating the truth.”

According to the New Hampshire Department of Justice, “the (Granite) State is counted amongst the nation’s top five states with the highest rates of opioid-involved deaths. In 2020 the State experienced an opioid overdose death rate of 26.9 per 100,000 in 2020, which was significantly higher than the national average of 21.4 deaths per 100,000.”

Lawrence City Council President Marc Laplante acknowledged there is a drug problem in his city, but urged officials in New Hampshire to help, not just point fingers.

“The Merrimack Valley (Lawrence/Lowell) is a regional fentanyl hub. Partnerships between state/local/federal agencies need to be fostered and improved to attack the supply AND demand problem. Work with us, NH,” he wrote on Twitter.

Lowell City Manager Tom Golden Jr., a former state Representative, expressed his disappointment in Ayotte’s attacks on the Mill City.

“I would expect more from a former US Senator. Blaming others for a national problem that she did nothing to solve is not helpful. When she is governor, maybe she can increase the dismal budget for mental health and substance abuse and stop sending them to Massachusetts to solve,” he told the Herald on Thursday.