People will start voting for the president in less than a month. That's bad news for Trump.

In less than a month, Americans will begin casting their votes for the next president of the United States. Starting with North Carolina, which mails out absentee ballots on September 9, half a dozen swing states will have the opportunity to vote next month, The Washington Examiner points out — and that could mean serious trouble for Donald Trump, whose general election campaign is still in its early stages compared to Hillary Clinton's vast organization.

"We no longer have an Election Day, we have an Election Month. That makes it harder for campaigns to peak at the right time but it rewards campaigns that are well-organized," Nathan Gonzales, the editor of the nonpartisan Rothenberg & Gonzales Political Report, told The Washington Examiner.

Clinton leads in the polls in states like Colorado, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Colorado, for one, conducts the entire election by mail; if Clinton earns early votes when the ballots are shipped on October 17, Trump is out of luck no matter what happens in the final weeks leading up to the election.

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Many in the Republican establishment are wringing their hands waiting for Trump's presidential "pivot," which does not seem to be coming. Nor does any stronger game plan appear to be on its way. "We'll see what happens, I mean, we'll see what happens," Trump told CNBC Thursday. "I have a whole group of people out there that people don't even know about."