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I doubt it is any different for Republicans in this respect. It probably has to do with the personality types that politics attracts, mainly charismatic, ambitious power hungry people. So they correctly assess that using their charisma to marry into rich families is a strategically sound means to an end.
John McCain was practically broke when he married an heiress to a beer distributor fortune. Her family fortune, and connections to Arizona upper crust, helped him dearly in his first run for the House, and then later the Senate.

He also politically timed his death to f Kelli ward. Seriously ppl watch his doc "for whom the bell tolls" and hear him talk about his hero from the book, he's admitting it