Ben Carson Makes False Statement on Nonprofit Failures

Ben Carson said, “nine out of 10 nonprofits fail.” Yet data on nonprofits show that half of the organizations that received their tax-exempt status 20 years ago were still considered active by the IRS in 2015.

Carson, who currently ranks second in an average of national polls for the GOP presidential nomination, made the claim during an Oct. 18 interview on ABC’s “This Week.” Host George Stephanopoulos asked Carson, a retired neurosurgeon who has never held public office, to respond to Donald Trump, the current front-runner for the GOP nomination, who questioned if Carson would be able to negotiate with leaders of China, Russia and Iran as president.