New Day has spent $4.4 million on pro-Kasich ads. | Getty Billionaire Bush backer Robertson ponies up for Kasich

Hedge fund billionaire Julian Robertson, a big backer of Jeb Bush, is hedging his bets with John Kasich.

Robertson gave $25,000 to New Day Independent Media Committee, one of the twin groups backing the Ohio governor, according to disclosures filed Sunday. Last June, Robertson, who founded Tiger Management, gave $1 million to Right to Rise, the pro-Bush super PAC. Right to Rise hadn't filed its latest disclosure report as of Sunday evening, so it was unclear whether Robertson continued to support Bush's cause in the last part of 2015.


Otherwise the Kasich funds mostly returned to his same stable of bankrollers. The Wendt Family Trust, associated with Republican fundraiser Greg Wendt, added $250,000 to its previous $1 million. Other major repeat donors to the New Day for America super PAC, albeit in smaller amounts, were L Brands baroness Abigail Wexner, New York investor Stanley Druckenmiller (who has also given Bush and Christie), former advertising executive Philip Geier and the Schottenstein family, whose business used to employ Kasich.

In total the pair of PACs raised $3.6 million and spent $10.6 million in the second half of 2015, with just under $2 million left in the bank as of the end of the year, the reports showed.

Donald Trump threatened to sue New Day after the super PAC said it planned to blitz him with attack ads. But it reported only about $15,000 spent on ads against him, compared with $4.4 million on pro-Kasich ads.