Trackpad malfunctioning- cursor intermittently becomes "difficult" to move

Recently my Macbook pro's track pad has not been working correctly. I'm not sure if you've ever experienced an issue when your hands are greasy/sticky/have water on them and your mouse doesn't move smoothly, and sometimes doesnt even move at all? It's very similar to that except it happens on a regular basis... I'll just be using my computer normally and randomly the mouse will completely stop moving, and then after a movements of different angles/pressures, it will move a little bit, and then stop again, and so on. When I've had this problem in the past, usually i just need to take a cloth of some sort and wipe across the track pad to clear it of anything, but I have tried this multiple times. I've tried wiping it with a napkin, also putting some screen cleaner to clean it off, and nothing seems to fix it. I can't even tell if it's a hardware issue or a software issue, but I'm leaning towards hardware as nothing else seems to be wrong with the functioning of the computer.
NOTE: the clicking aspect of the trackpad is completely functional. (although sometimes when the trackpad issue is present, the tap-to-click doesn't work)
Thanks for any help with this issue!

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks guys

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