Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers Calls New Zealand PM 'Lenin With Hair'

A Republican Senator in the US state of Arizona has come under fire for calling New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern 'Lenin with hair'.

Wendy Rogers shared a video on Twitter of Ardern speaking virtually to world leaders as part of the Summit for Democracy last week, where the Prime Minister talked about COVID-19 misinformation and why her Government had introduced New Zealand's public interest journalism fund.  

'Lenin with hair,' Rogers posted with the video.

Vladimir Lenin was a communist leader who commanded the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. The revolution cemented communism in Russia and the Soviet Union for the next 74 years.

Under Lenin's leadership, the Soviet government oversaw the 'Red Terror' - a campaign of widespread executions and arrests against so-called "enemies of the people". 

The Prime Minister's office has been contacted for a response to Rogers' remarks.

Rogers is a staunch ally of former US President Donald Trump, and has supported his repeated claims of a rigged 2020 election. 

In September, she said each state could "decertify" the election result.

"More bold Christians are needed in office to counter the satanic Communists in both parties," the Arizona Senator also wrote in another tweet on Sunday.

In July, Rogers campaigned for the election to be decertified and previously launched a petition that potentially gained 663,000 signatures.

"Things are really taking off! Let's get to 1 million ASAP. Audit results are coming soon, more states are coming online," she tweeted in September. 

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