STOCKTON — Stocktonians will be able to feel the “Bern” on Tuesday, The Record has learned.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is expected to arrive in the state on Monday. He is expected to attend a rally that night in Sacramento and another on Tuesday in Stockton.

The venues and times for the rallies have not been decided.

Presidential candidates do not come to Stockton often. Before general elections, California is often considered a Democratic lock, so candidates don't usually make the trip. And the party's nominees are often already secured before California holds its primary in June.

But there have been some candidates in Stockton, Record archives show.

Among them:

• Republican Mitt Romney came to Stockton in 2012 for a fundraiser while running against incumbent President Barack Obama in 2012. He raised $500,000.

• Democrat Dennis Kucinich, an Ohio congressman, came to Stockton in 2003. He lost the Democratic primary to then-Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, whom President George W. Bush defeated in 2004.

• Then-Texas Gov. Bush came to Stockton in 2000 on his way to winning his first term as president. As a sitting president, he came to Stockton twice, both times to stump for GOP candidates in state and regional races.

• Republican businessman Steve Forbes came to Stockton in 1999. He lost the party's nomination to Bush.

• And vice-presidential candidate Jack Kemp, a New York senator running on the GOP ticket with Kansas Sen. Bob Dole, came in 1996. Bill Clinton won the presidential election that year.

• Three other sitting presidents have been to Stockton, according to Record archives. Harry Truman came through on a whistle-stop train trip but did not speak because he was in Stockton on a Sunday, and he wanted to respect the Sabbath; and both Woodrow Wilson and William McKinley went through Stockton in the early 20th Century, but neither gave speeches.

Sanders is fresh from an upset victory over Hillary Clinton in the Indiana primary this week. The most recent polls show him trailing Clinton in California by 9 percent, but at one time she held a 19-point lead.

Sanders has fared well in states where the Democratic Party allows people registered in other parties to vote on their slate of candidates in the primary. The California Democratic party allows such crossover voting. The Republican Party does not.

Absentee voting in California begins on Monday, and some people have already received their ballots in the mail. People who want to vote in the California Primary on June 7 have until May 23 to register.

Online registration is available at registertovote.ca.gov/.