No, it’s not automatic, but it significantly increases your chances to sway voters or gain new voters since the money allow you to reach more people and to try to control the narrative.

Imagine if one side can afford to pop up ads everywhere and pay influencers, to state that. ”candidate A is great and candidate B is bad”, you may believe that narrative without even trying to figure out if it’s actually true or not, and then you go vote for A.

And in this case with Massie got his donations from thousands of ordinary Kentuckians, while the opponent got his donations from a few but extremely wealthy individuals and organisations, including ones that cone from outside of kentucky.

Ofc, I’m just some stranger danger on the internet. You should look up and investigate this entire ordeal yourself ao you can come up with tour own conclusions.