Actor Patrick Dempsey says he won’t run for Senate in Maine

The “Grey’s Anatomy” star said he considered a Senate run after being asked about it “more than once” in recent days as Graham Platner faced calls to drop out.

While actor Patrick Dempsey saved a lot of lives on “Grey’s Anatomy,” he won’t be the McDreamy candidate to rescue Democrats in Maine following Graham Platner’s exit.

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Dempsey, who played neurosurgeon Derek Shepherd on the long-running ABC medical drama, said that he will not be throwing his hat into the ring for the Senate race after his name was one of many floated as a potential replacement for Platner, the embattled Democratic nominee who ended his campaign Wednesday night.

“I kept coming back to one question: Do I truly want to serve in Congress? After a lot of thought, I realized the answer is no,” Dempsey, a Maine native, wrote in an op-ed published by the Portland Press Herald about four hours before Platner dropped out.