The two are planning a joint announcement on election integrity ahead of November, but the trip itself is significant for both. Johnson needs Trump to temper hard-line Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's threats to evict him from office. And Trump benefits from the imprimatur of official Washington dashing to Florida to embrace his comeback bid for the White House.
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"It is the symbolism," said Charlie Sykes, a conservative commentator and frequent Trump critic.
"There was a time when the Speaker of the House of Representatives was a dominant figure in American politics," he said. "Look where we are now, where he comes hat in hand to Mar-a-Lago."
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