Why is this one paragraph link showing up funky?
You're making a mistake in your CSS, doing things like this:
.nav_link li, a

You need to remove those commas. I assume here you're trying to style an a within an li within an element with a class of .nav_link. But that's NOT what you're doing. Instead, this selector is applying a bunch of styles to .nav_link li and separately to all a elements. The selector should actually read like so:
.nav_link li a

You have this issue at several points in your CSS.

I am attaching some code in here, I have recently added in a link to my portfolio website and the paragraph link is doing something weird, it seems to be aligning funky and I'm not sure what the issue is. I'm wondering if it might be stemming from some other a stylings in the CSS (like nav_links) but I'm unsure how to correct this without messing up the other a stylings.
I added a class to the a href and tried to add in some CSS styling for it, it fixed some issues (like the size and color)but that gap
